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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...
George Gamow, a prominent theoretical physicist, is one recurring figure in the story. Watson describes him as a “six-foot, six-inch giant” who “defied conventional description with his penchant for tricks that masked a mind that always thought big.” With Gamow, Watson founded the RNA Tie Club, a group of twenty scientists—one for each amino acid—who sought to understand the purpose of RNA. Watson’s descriptions of many of these scientists often zero in on their idiosyncracies and help personalize...
...Physicist Julian Barbour has an unconventional theory: time does not really exist; it's an illusion created by the nature of our ability to perceive events. Can I then infer that your magazine is also an illusion and the subscription bills I get are a product of my faulty perceptions? JIM MCINVALE Columbia...
...along, and about 15 years ago he tackled it in earnest. Recalls Barbour: "I asked myself, 'How do you get hold of time? It's invisible; you can't really get your hands on it. So what is it really?'" There wasn't any good answer. Although physicists work with time all the time (as it were), they never define precisely what it is. Barbour also knew that at least one physicist, an American named Bryce DeWitt, had managed to meld general relativity and quantum mechanics into a single consistent theory--a major goal of modern physics--by removing time...