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Coventry seems like an unlikely headquarters for a MacArthur fellow and Ph.D. nuclear physicist, but it's a perfect fit for Carlson, who has dedicated his career to the idea that ordinary, everyday people can be involved in science...
...professional nuclear physicist," Carlson says. "I'm an amateur everything else...
...idea came out of left field. Electrical engineer Ronald Nutt and physicist David Townsend, working at the University of Geneva in Switzerland, had just taken the cover off their newly developed metabolic-imaging machine and were admiring its innards when an oncology surgeon happened by. "You have a lot of space between those detectors," he offered. "You ought to try to put something in there that would be useful...
...Apart from having some technical savvy based upon my Harvard graduate education, the very fact that I'm a quantum physicist means that my expertise is natural law, the government of nature and how nature governs this immensely complex universe without problems," he says...
...think that obviously being a physicist and knowing a lot of physics is very helpful in knowing a lot of technology, so he is in a good position to understand things like arms control issues," Georgi says...