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Princeton University physicist J. Richard Gott has used standard assumptions about the statistics of populations to calculate that there is a 95% chance that humanity will become extinct somewhere between 5,100 and 7.8 million years from...
...University of Washington physicist has accepted a tenured position in Harvard's physics and Astronomy Departments, according to the departments...
...Physicist has won numerous awards, including a National Science Foundation Special Creativity Grant...
...feels the same about the Rudnick clan of Piscataway, N.J. Paul's father Norman was a physicist at Gulton Industries, which, Paul says, "developed a lot of things that to this day I do not understand: capacitors, transistor devices that would go into everything from Osterizers to rocket ships." Later he edited one of the first textbooks on AIDS. Selma has worked for Partisan Review, for the Pennsylvania Ballet and now for a Philadelphia concert producer. Paul's older brother Evan, a jack-of-all-trades, lives near Ithaca, N.Y. "He has long hair and a beard and is very...
...untreatable degenerative nerve disorder that crippled and eventually killed Lou Gehrig, the New York Yankee first baseman. Victims of "Lou Gehrig's disease" usually die because of fast-spreading paralysis in as little as three to five years. A small percentage of ALS sufferers, including famed British physicist Stephen Hawking, manage to survive for decades, mentally alert but trapped in a completely immobilized body. The new finding, reported in the journal Nature, could someday result in treatment and perhaps even prevention of the disease...