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Ultimately, though, the greatest inspiration in this volume comes from Sakharov's own calm yet stubborn determination in the face of the repression he has struggled against for so long. The unique status of the physicist in international nuclear relations brought Sakharov into the political arena: but it has been his own dedication and hunger to see justice Jone that have made him an icon of the human rights cause...
...shirtsleeved, tousled-haired physicist bounded across the platform, he unleashed his ideas in staccato bursts and gesticulated with the verve of a maestro. "You have to pardon Carlo," said a colleague. "He's a little high-strung these days." With good reason. Using one of the world's most powerful atom smashers, Italy's Carlo Rubbia, 48, and his team of 134 European and American scientists appear to have snared a trophy that has been the dream of physicists for two generations: discovery of the so-called W particle, the elusive carrier of one of the universe...
...disintegration, or "decay," of certain nuclei, like those of uranium 235. Post-Einstein theorists in the late 1960s succeeded in finding a unity between electromagnetism and the weak force. Their "electroweak" theory postulated the existence of a family of three particles called intermediate vector bosons (after the Indian physicist S.N. Bose...
Theoretical Physicists Steven Weinberg, then-Higgens Professor of Physics, and Pakistani physicist Adbus Salam predicted the location and weight of the W and Z particles as early as 1967. Weinberg, Salam, and current Higgins Professor of Physics Scheldon L. Glashow shared the Nobel Prize in 1979 for their work on the unification theories. "If Rubbia had not confirmed the existence of the W particle, theoretical physicists would have been running around emitting sharp cries," Weinberg, who now teaches at the University of Texas, said yesterday...
...report issued by the society, Physicist Larry Medsker of the New Jersey Institute of Technology surveys nine renewable energy sources and finds that all have potentially unwelcome, occasionally even hazardous, side effects. The burning of wood can deplete forests and increase air pollution. Building towers to harness wind may disrupt wildlife habitats and the migratory flights of birds. Fires in homes with photovoltaic cells can result in the release of noxious fumes. And direct use of the sun could add to urban sprawl since collection devices are not as efficient in high-rise apartments as they are in small houses...