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...What you really learn to do as a physicist istake the world and translate it into mathematicalequations, solve the equations, and translate themback into the physical world," says Hanna...
Michael Whalen, a Harvard physicist who worksat the University's Department of EnvironmentalHealth and Safety, said the effect of theradioactive iodine would depend on the isotope'sconcentration...
...David Lister, an MIT physicist, wasasked on December 28 by the president of MIT tohead up the institute's probe into theexperiments, Campbell said...
...situation: Someone who expects to concentrate in Classics takes Science A to fill a requirement, then falls in love with the material. This person has a three-sided problem. A Physics Core exemption has been wasted, a Science A will be credited as a precious elective and the aspiring physicist must start from scratch in the department. To make things worse, Physics 5 probably repeats some of the material from the Science A that lured the student away from Classics...
...four astronauts who will venture outside Endeavour to work on the Hubble -- Musgrave, Jeffrey Hoffman, Thomas Akers and Kathryn Thornton -- are all veteran spacewalkers. Thornton, a nuclear physicist and mother of five, went on the 1992 mission that repaired the Intelsat communications satellite. On that flight, the 5-ft. 4-in. K.T., as the other astronauts call her, wasn't involved in wrestling the three-ton satellite into the shuttle's payload bay. (It eventually took three men to do that job.) This time, though, she will play a key role: installing the Hubble's corrective lenses. They will...