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...Isaac J. Meyers, the Harvard teaching fellow who died on Monday, was the kind of person anyone could talk to. “Whenever I was very blue—whether I just didn’t feel well or something went wrong at work or I just had a break-up—he was always there,” said Zoe Teegarden, a Harvard Hillel community member who said she was a close friend of Meyers. “Present. He was always present—that’s the perfect word to describe Isaac. He didn?...
PHYSICIST Sir Isaac Newton is usually seen as the enemy of athletes. So much of sports, after all, involves battling gravity. But basketball coach Holger Geschwindner, 62, has found a way to turn the laws of physics to his advantage. A former captain of the German national team and a physicist, he has developed a series of formulas that may reveal the optimum arc for jump shots, using a combination of player height, arm length and release point. "Take differential and integral calculus. Make some derivations and create a curve," he recently said. "Everybody...
...Isaac J. Meyers, a Harvard teaching fellow, died yesterday after he was hit by a Shaw’s tractor trailer before sunrise at the intersection of Mass. Ave and Prospect...
...Globe reported that police have not released the victim’s name, but e-mails from representatives of Harvard Hillel and the Chabad House at Harvard to their respective organizations identified him as Isaac Meyers, a teaching fellow in the classics department...
...tourists who tramp through its labyrinthine exhibits, it's about the pre-eminence of pop culture, and the random nature - and transience - of fame. Hollywood A-listers, sports people and British royals hog the limelight. There are 400-odd figures on show, but all scientific endeavor is represented by Isaac Newton, Stephen Hawking, Charles Darwin, Isambard Kingdom Brunel and TIME's Person of the Century, Albert Einstein, who share a small annex with Vincent Van Gogh, William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde. In the dim light of the first gallery, it looks as if Ivana Trump has made...