Word: physicists
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Amir Yacoby, an Israeli condensed matter physicist, had a few qualms about moving halfway across the world to join the Faculty at Harvard. Among other factors, he feared the possibility of culture shock and the adjustments his family would have to make after the move...
Other green-conscious professors contacted by The Crimson bragged about their fancy bicycles. Economist Emmanuel Farhi says his bike is “very powerful,” and physicist Gerald Gabrielse notes that his is made of titanium. Still others, such as economist Matthew Nunn, mathematician Bret J. Benesh, English professor Elizabeth D. Lyman, and political scientists Glyn Morgan and Cindy Skach said they used Zipcars when they needed mechanized transport. “Nearly everyone I know uses them,” Morgan says of his Cambridge neighbors. The Zipcar service allows people to rent cars quickly...
...organ was built in 1967 by a Harvard physicist. The pipes, of varying sizes, resemble faces with elongated foreheads and tiny rectangular mouths. Gold metalwork laces the perimeters, and a small mirror propped at an angle allows the organist to see the conductor behind...
...nearly 30 years ago that physicist Luis Alvarez and his son Walter, a geologist, proposed the giant-impact theory of dinosaur extinction. Their evidence was compelling: a thin layer of iridium in the earth's sediment dating to about the time of the die-off. Iridium is rare on Earth but common in asteroids. The iridium layer, mapped by the Alvarezes in scattered sites around the world, suggested an asteroid that vaporized on impact, spreading a cloud throughout the stratosphere. The argument seemed sealed in the 1990s, when geologists realized that a huge crater centered near Chicxulub, Mexico, was almost...
...began by inquiring of particle physicist Lisa Randall about the investigation of extra dimensions...