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...part of the generation of scientists who revolutionized physics in the 1970s and confirmed the quantum theories of physicists from the early 20th century including Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein.Wilson won the 1982 Nobel Prize in physics for his development of the Renormalization Group (RG) into a central tool in physics.Wilson’s father, E. Bright Wilson Jr. was a professor of chemistry at Harvard. As an undergraduate, Wilson concentrated in mathematics, though he also studied physics. He won the prestigious Putnam fellowship, awarded to high scorers on a national collegiate math competition.Wilson described his time at Harvard...
...Jayanthiny Kangatharan Altena, Germany The days just before and after high-sugar holidays like Halloween and Valentine's Day constitute a veritable sucrose feeding frenzy in schools. Many school clubs and organizations depend on the sale of overpriced candy bars and other sugar-laden snacks as a fund-raising tool. There is seldom a time during the school year when some group is not selling some sugary treat. And obviously, if students buy it, they're going to eat it. Richard Lee Hunter Spiro, Oklahoma, U.S. World's Movers and Shakers I was truly saddened and disappointed that you omitted...
...days just before and after high-sugar holidays like Halloween and Valentine's Day constitute a veritable sucrose feeding frenzy in schools. Many school clubs and organizations depend on the sale of overpriced candy bars and other sugar-laden snacks as a fund-raising tool. There is seldom a time during the school year when some group is not selling some sugary treat. And obviously, if students buy it, they're going...
...Gold, and he certainly has a florid line of patter for the desperate townspeople of Agro Pontino who come to borrow money at 100% interest, telling each woman, "My last thought in life will be of you." (He's proud of his old-school manners, telling the matchmaker, "My tool of seduction is my charming mode of speech." She corrects him: "Your only tool of seduction is hope.") But when repayment is overdue, Geremia has no heart at all. He strips one young couple of every piece of their jewelry, plus a coffeemaker, and if the debtors try to avoid...
...Ethical Tool A burglar's Leatherman in a surgeon's pocket raises many complicated questions