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Scientists are not what you'd call high rollers. But in 1991 STEPHEN HAWKING, the brilliant, paralyzed British physicist, bet American colleagues KIP THORNE and JOHN PRESKILL that there is no such thing as a naked singularity in physics. A singularity is an object of such density that the laws of physics do not apply to it. A naked singularity is such an object outside a black hole, but Hawking believes it can exist only inside a black hole. He lost his bet when someone else proved that you could, in theory, focus gravity waves so precisely as to create...
...Jack Kevorkian, a retired physicist from Swathmore, Pa., discussing his attitude towards assisted-suicide. Kevorkian bears no relation to Dr. Jack Kevorkian of Michigan, who has acknowledged attending 45 deaths since...
...born physicist. Anticipating the Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens by nearly two centuries, he propounds the law of wave motion, suggesting that it is water's "percussive" force rather than water itself that is moving. Sketching a water drop splattering on a flat surface, he catches its precise, crownlike spray in a stop-action image that was not verified until Harold Edgerton's high-speed photography at M.I.T. Impressive too are his moral sensibilities. He mentions that he has invented an underwater breathing device, then notes that divers could use it to sneak up on enemy ships and sink them...
BORN: Feb. 6, 1934, Pipestone, Minn. EDUCATION: U of California, Berkeley, A.B., 1956, Ph.D., 1960 FAMILY: Wife, Johanna; four children RELIGION: Christian Reformed MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Professor; physicist political career: Kent County commissioner, 1975-83; Michigan House, 1983-85, Senate, 1985-93; U.S. House, 1993- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 3340, Grand Rapids...
BORN: March 6, 1920, Holtville EDUCATION: UCLA, B.A., 1946 FAMILY: Wife, Marta; two children, five stepchildren RELIGION: Methodist MILITARY: Army, 1942-46 OCCUPATION: Management consultant; physicist POLITICAL CAREER: Mayor of Monterey Park, 1955-58; California Assembly, 1959-62; U.S. House, 1962-; sought Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate, 1970 ADDRESS: P.O. Box 1867, Colton...