Word: mathematician
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...used that tool with consummate skill. While still a graduate student, Hawking became fascinated by black holes, the bizarre objects created during the death throes of large stars. Working with mathematician Roger Penrose and using Einstein's relativity equations, he developed new techniques proving mathematically that at the heart of black holes were singularities -- infinitely dense, dimensionless points with irresistible gravity. He went on to demonstrate that the entire universe could have sprung from a singularity and, in his 1966 Ph.D. thesis, wryly noted that "there is a singularity in our past...
Twenty-five years ago, they seemed to be the classic college odd couple. William H. Vanderbilt '67 was the jock. John P. Bihldorff '67 was the mathematician. Vanderbilt was captain of several sports teams. Bihldorff was president of the Glee Club. "He couldn't sing a note," Bihldorff laughs about Vanderbilt...
...reporter followed up by asking what would happen if Kerrey finished fifth. "Are you a mathematician?" Kerrey shot back. "I'm not going to finish fifth. Next question...
Kung was originally trained as a mathematician and has worked in a number of other fields besides computer design...
...contest, which counts three Harvard professors among its planners, takes up a challenge made in the 1950s by the British mathematician Alan M. Turing...