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...physicist aptly named Bohr...
Mallett: I am a theoretical physicist, but an experimental colleague and I are working together currently. We are using photonic crystals, which is cutting new technology, that trap light. The crystals allow us to study the possibility of time travel first at the subatomic level, which uses less energy. Right now the experimenting is slow-going because I am teaching full-time but the experiment idea is itself very well developed. We are hoping to get funding this fall after working extensively on it once classes end. I think the government will be very interested in our work for larger...
...beat up the monster in a back alley, and on the side of greed, there is the government researcher who tortures the monster in a mad quest for grant money. Representing the more noble aspect of humanity, there is of course Beatrice, as well as Dr. Arto, a physicist and musician bedazzled by the rhythms of the universe and endowed with the power to destroy the monster. (You’ve seen these bad scientist/ good scientist types before, consider E.T. and A Beautiful Mind, respectively.) Overall, there is nothing particularly original about these stereotyped characters, but in the context...
Leonid M. Ozernoy, a Russian physicist who fought the Soviet government for the freedom to leave the U.S.S.R. and teach at Harvard, died Feb. 28 in a Silver Spring, Md., hospital...
...Harvard colleagues didn’t understand why anyone was upset. “I have no problem bringing Albert Speer here,” said one academic, an expert on Germany. “It’s no different than hiring a good physicist who thinks Adolf Hitler is the best invention since sliced bread.” A professor of European history, meanwhile, said, “personally, I think it’s admirable that Speer has served for that government...