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...Today, there?s a questionable sense of modesty when Watson explains how he and Crick, a dropout physicist, managed to beat the world-renowned chemist Linus Pauling to the double helix. Watson said that it was really a simple problem: ?If it were complicated, I wouldn?t have gotten it.? He refused to retract his somewhat churlish portrait of his rival, the British crystallographer Rosalind Franklin, in his gossipy book The Double Helix, saying that she blew her chances of cracking the puzzle by refusing to cooperate with her savvy King?s College co-worker Maurice Wilkins, who ultimately shared...
...interest of pursuing what he calls Einstein’s “dying dream”—a unified theory which encompasses both quantum mechanics and relativity—the Cambridge-educated theoretical physicist has dismissed the constant speed of light as a misconception...
...Portuguese physicist spoke last night to promote his new book, Faster than the Speed of Light: The Story of A Scientific Speculation—one which he hopes will give both scholars and non-academics new insight into his theories...
Ehrenreich, a physicist in the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, jokes that he understands the Faculty of Arts and Sciences—“his solar system”—but is now being asked to understand a whole other galaxy: the full University...
Loeb, who died July 14 at the age of 79, started his career as a chemical physicist before he began his innovative research in geometric forms and spatial patterns...