Word: physicists
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...University presented 11 honorary degrees, including doctor of letter degrees to poet John Ashbery, a doctorate in humane letters to Indian womens’ labor organizer Ela R. Bhatt and anti-violence activist Geoffrey Canada, a doctorate in science to chemist Isabella L. Karle and physicist Charles H. Townes...
...EDWIN HUBBLE when: 1927 what he did: Discovered that faraway galaxies all seem to be flying away from Earth, which suggested that the universe was in fact expanding. In doing so, Hubble gave Einstein scientific license to abandon the cosmological constant, whose creation the brilliant physicist dubbed the greatest blunder of his career. In retrospect, it was an inspired guess that could have won him another Nobel Prize...
...Felipe is no luxury resort. Few of the settlements have electricity. But refrigerators run on propane and computers on solar panels. Cell phones substitute for land lines. E-mail is offered through The Net, a computer service run by physicist Tony Colleraine, who retired early from defense contractor General Atomics and now hustles Mexican businesses to advertise on www.sanfelipe.com.mx...
...gone. There's a record of the light beam stored in the gas atoms, and when the physicists zap the gas with another burst of light, the first one reappears in its original form (how they tell them apart is a physicist thing). And thus is light made to stop at a traffic light and wait, before being sent...
Although the society is new, physicians and scholars have known about the condition for centuries. History, in fact, teems with brilliant synesthetes--including such luminaries as novelist Vladimir Nabokov, composer Franz Liszt and physicist Richard Feynman. Synesthesia enjoyed a certain spiritual currency in the late 19th century, especially among the European avant-garde. Many artists, most notably abstract painter Wassily Kandinsky, were famed for their synesthetic pretensions. "I saw all my colors," wrote Kandinsky, recalling his experience of a Wagner opera. "Wild lines verging on the insane formed drawings before my very eyes...