Word: physicist
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...rare inside look at particle physics, a field increasingly dependent on huge and expensive machines -- and on scientists who are as adept at fund raising and politicking as they are at probing the subatomic world. Author Gary Taubes provides that view while chronicling the research that won Italian Physicist Carlo Rubbia a share of the 1984 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the W and Z particles, which transmit the so- called weak nuclear force...
Taubes acknowledges Rubbia's brilliance. But he argues that the physicist's distinguished career has been marred by manipulation, bullying and corner cutting. Taubes told TIME that in his opinion Rubbia "has made more mistakes than any major physicist of his era. He has a history of distorting and exaggerating his experimental results." Says Nobel Laureate Sheldon Glashow, a Harvard colleague of Rubbia's: "The book is a fair picture. I would make it required reading for anyone who wants to go into this field...
...democracy demonstrations that spread to major cities across China. Last week the same students found a quieter way to express their sentiments: at least 1,000 reportedly signed their names in souvenir albums that paid homage to the university's ousted president, Guan Weiyan. The veteran educator and physicist had been sacked for not exercising tighter control over University Vice President Fang Lizhi, an outspoken defender of liberalization who had also lost his job after the marches. As he left his office, Guan penned a calligraphic farewell to his students: "Study hard. The opportunity to serve the country will come...
Nobel laureate and physicist Philip W. Anderson '43 wrote his 1949 Ph.D. dissertation on, "The Theory of Broadening of Spectral Lines in the Microwave and Infrared Regions," and received the Swedish prize...
Jarrett said he is looking forward to going to Cornell. He added that he is particularly interested in working with one physicist there whose interests overlap with...