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...forests, rivers and mountains. Consider, for example, the Alps. To sobersided moderns, these vast, snowy protuberances are no more than vertically enhanced scenery--awesome to be sure, but devoid of greater meaning. Earlier generations were more impressionable. As proof that the mountains were possessed by the devil, the learned physicist and mathematician Johann Jacob Scheuchzer in 1702 compiled an encyclopedic list of dragon sightings in the Alps. (Mons Pilatus was said to harbor a particularly hideous monster, with a head "that terminated in the serrated jaw of a serpent...
...professors and researchers are really working with us now. They're more cautious, more responsive, more interested," Joseph Ring, senior health physicist for Harvard's Radiation Protection Office said yesterday...
...Nuclear physicist Stanton T. Friedman, who hadreceived a letter from Sheehan, said "I considerit a vicious attack, not because I necessarilyendorse all of John's methodology...
...experimental atomic physicist, Prentiss specializes in using laser fields to manipulate atoms, he said...
...Some of the texts of physics are so flaming in gender bias it's as if the author was writing for an exclusively male audience," Franklin says. She cites problems in which a physicist must save a beautiful woman drowning in a river. The book with that particular problem in it was written in 1965, but Franklin says she believes the male bias continues...