Word: linearly
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Besides Glashow, who won a Nobel Prize for physics in 1978. Burton Richter, professor of physics at Stanford University and a Nobel Laureate in 1976, and Wolfgang Panofsky, the director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator, will be present at the conference, which is sponsored by the Fermi physics Laboratory of Chicago, as well as "much of the physics establishment of Moscow," Glashow said...
...several problems with Mismeasure. When he departs from his string of examples and analyses and attempts to philosophize or use high-level technical terminology, the book loses its punch. His statistical sections demand too much from a popular audience and bog down the narrative, especially in his discourses on linear algebra. When he sticks to careful analysis of the I.Q. examiners, he is on much more solid ground...
Concerns over diminishing University prizewinnings, though, was far from anybody's mind Monday. Bloembergen, an expert on non-linear optics and nuclear magnetic resonance, voiced only one worry, and it was appropriately mild: "I hope [the award] won't change my life too much because I consider my life pretty good...
...neurons of the visual cortex, the researchers discovered that the cells in the cortex are arranged in a regular pattern in columns organized into equally regular "hypercolumns." Each cell within each column, they discovered, has a specific responsibility to perceive and analyze incoming images according to contrast, linear patterns and movement on the retina. Within the columns, the analysis also occurs in a formal sequence. Eventually all this information is relayed to the higher centers in the brain where the "full picture," or visual impression, is assembled and a memory of it stored...
Designed by Peter Chermayeff, 45, chief architect of Cambridge Seven Associates, the building improves upon concepts the firm used in 1970 for Boston's successful New England Aquarium. Chermayeff describes the layout as similar to a symphony, with a linear structure following an "ABA" rhythm. The exhibits constitute the A elements, or as Chermayeff puts it, "something to read, confront, evoke a response." Long escalator rides from one floor to another through a dramatically high-ceilinged central space provide the release, or B elements. The building begins with a low-key introduction to water-large, blue bubble-tubes...