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...early 1960s, as the first director of the biomedical-research arm of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, physicist John Gofman, who had helped develop the atom bomb, was asked to look into the health effects of ionizing radiation. His conclusion--that the risk from low levels of exposure was 20 times as high as stated by the government--enraged the Atomic Energy Commission, which unsuccessfully tried to stop Gofman and colleague Arthur Tamplin from publishing the data. Suddenly an industry pariah and a reluctant "father" of the antinuclear movement, Gofman went on to found the Committee for Nuclear Responsibility...
...the hell did they think I'd feel?" Ralph Asher Alpher once said of Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, the astronomers who won the 1978 Nobel Prize for the Big Bang theory without citing Alpher--30 years after he had proposed the notion in his doctoral dissertation. The physicist was eventually recognized for his work, with awards including the National Medal of Science...
...study, Lidia Morawska, a physicist at the Queensland Institute of Technology, and her colleagues analyzed printer emissions in a large open-plan office environment. The good news was that 60% of the printers they tested, including eight HP LaserJet 4050 models, four Ricoh Aficio models and one Toshiba Studio, did not emit any particles. But of the 40% that did, many, such as the HP LaserJet 1320 and 4250 models, were classified as "high-level emitters." Emissions, researchers found, were printer-specific and fluctuated depending on the age of the toner cartridge and the amount of toner a document required...
...Ravishankara’s roommate since freshman year who has acted in most of his fictional pieces and started the Star Wars tribute band “So Long Princess” with him. Ravishankara arrived at Harvard four years ago expecting to become a physicist like his father. The change of path wasn’t easy, and Harvard hasn’t always been fully supportive of his creative efforts, but Ravishankara kept his creative energy kindled and seized the opportunities that came his way. “Harvard won’t give you anything, you have...
LAWRENCE KRAUSS, a Case Western Reserve University physicist, in a sarcastic appraisal of Kentucky's new Creation Museum, which presents the Bible's version of Earth's history--that the planet was created in a single week just a few thousand years ago. The museum opened on May 28 as protesters rallied outside...