Search Details

Word: lambda (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Lambda 8: The American ships are the CG40438 and the CG95320, both with .30-cal. machine guns, the CG95312 and a destroyer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: The Water War | 2/14/1964 | See Source »

...Lambda 8: All right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: The Water War | 2/14/1964 | See Source »

...short-lived that their age was measured in less than a billionth of a second, their very existence inferred from the erratic tracks they left in bubble and cloud chambers. Some left no tracks at all. The list proliferated to the sound of Greek letters-eta, rho, omega, lambda, sigma, xi-until it seemed that the alphabet might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nuclear Physics: Not As a Stranger | 4/26/1963 | See Source »

...team with his clutch play and rebounding. A hard worker if not a great scholar, he kept his grades at a B-minus average, switching from pre-dentistry to physical education as a junior. He was the first Negro to be pledged to the predominantly Jewish fraternity of Pi Lambda Phi. A devoutly religious member of the Swedish Mission Covenant church, he spoke constantly before church groups, was a leader of "Youth for Christ.'' a nondenominational national campus movement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: To Do a Little Better | 8/29/1960 | See Source »

...bubble-chamber picture (see cut), an antiproton from the Bevatron enters at bottom and hits a proton (1): out of the collision come one lambda and one anti-lambda particle. Since both are neutral electrically, they leave no tracks in the liquid hydrogen, but after a short, invisible career, each decays into track-leaving particles by which it can be identified. The lambda ( 2) turns into a proton and a negative pi meson, both of which go off the picture leaving strong curved tracks. The anti-lambda (3) turns into an antiproton and a positive pi meson. The positive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Secret Uncovered | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

Previous | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | Next