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Profet, whose father is a physicist and mother an engineer, grew up in Manhattan Beach, California, and studied political philosophy at Harvard. An early resistance to science, she says, came from her religious upbringing. "I couldn't reconcile religion with science," she recalls. "I didn't like biology. You look at an internal organ, and it's just so unaesthetic. How could God make things so asymmetrical...
Higgins Professor of Physics Sheldon L. Glashow, a Nobel Prize-winning particle physicist--whose letter in favor of the SSC was read on the Senate floor before the vote--considers knowledge to be the sole benefit of this project...
...famous physicist has a book even mortals can read...
...truth is that "proliferation cannot be stopped," says Gotz Neuneck, a physicist at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy in Hamburg. "If a country wants to develop these weapons, it can do it." Even slowing the spread is difficult. The nuclear nonproliferation treaty bars development by or transfer of the weapons to non-nuclear states. It has done some good, but it has not prevented additional states from acquiring the bomb. Several, including India, Pakistan and Israel, simply refused to sign. Iraq, on the other hand, signed the treaty but cheated. Iran and North Korea signed and have...
According to Giovanni G. Fazio, senior physicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, researchers are developing the space infrared telescope facility (SIRTF) in hopes of better understanding star formation by looking at the cores of dense stellar clouds...