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...thank the city of Wurzburg, Germany, for improving the lives of so many people around the world. No, this Bavarian hamlet of 130,000 isn't home to BMW, or host of a World Cup soccer match over the next month. But in 1895, a University of Wurzburg physicist named Wilhelm Roentgen discovered a form of electromagnetic radiation called the X ray, helping millions upon millions of sickened, frustrated patients cure what ails them. And over a century later, the city produced a blond, shaggy, 7-foot jump shooter named Dirk Nowitzki, helping countless sickened, frustrated NBA fans find...
...people qualify.”Prominent leaders in higher education today include anthropologist Alison F. Richard, head of the University of Cambridge; Stanford Provost John Etchemendy, a professor of philosophy; University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman; Princeton President Shirley M. Tilghman; and Shirley Ann Jackson, a physicist and the president of Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y.Other candidates whose names have been bandied about include Ruth J. Simmons, who, as president of Brown, is the first African-American leader of an Ivy League school. Tufts University President Lawrence S. Bacow has also been mentioned. Bacow, a former MIT chancellor...
With a budget of less than $10,000 for its first year, the Foundation hosted a commission hearing on wartime relocation and internment of Japanese-American citizens and invited a prominent black physicist to speak, Counter recalls...
...house and informed Ruth that an American correspondent had been arrested. The friend, it turned out, was actually a KGB informant. Daniloff’s capture and subsequent release followed the tit-for-tat logic of the Cold War. He was arrested the week after a Soviet physicist working at the United Nations was charged with spying against the United States. And Daniloff was only freed after a complex series of negotiations resulted in the release of Daniloff, the Soviet agent, and several other Soviet dissidents.But not before spending two weeks in the 18th century jail. In his tiny cell...
Though John A. Armstrong ’56 is a physicist by training, he is knowledgeable in areas as disparate as meteorology and submarines. During his 30-year career at IBM, where he ultimately served as vice president for science and technology, he directed research during an era during which the cutting edge of technology progressed from lasers to microprocessors...