Word: working
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with delight: "I was cornered by one of those gray-haired Swedish physicists. I was armed with information about charm, all the information he could have wanted. It was my baby and I wanted to talk about it. But he didn't. He started to grill me about my work of some 15 years ago. He'd ask a question and I'd propose a tentaive answer, though I was a bit rusty. Whenever I was a bit off he'd quickly correct me. It soon became clear that he knew much more about my own work than...
Both Glashow and Weinberg have a manifest interest in popularizing their fields. A few years ago, Weinberg published "The First Three Minutes" a work which reconstructs in layman's terms the events that followed the Big Bang. It was an enormous success, both here and abroad, and has been translated into many languages. In fact, the book has sold much better in Germany than in the U.S. Glashow, who plans one day to write a book along the lines of his undergraduate course, finds this disturbing: "a better scientifically informed public would be far more capable of dealing with...
...EXAMINATION of its immediate points, the larger import of Glashow's and Weinberg's work can be easily overlooked. Unified field theory was unsubstantiated as recently as the 1950's. Belief that it would ultimately be proven true was the exception: skepticism was the rule. The "glorious tapestry" that we now appreciate was periously close to never being woven. So not only was guage theory momentous, but it was propitious, for with its discovery, the pendulum of scientific opinion swung in the other direction. As Bamberg suggests, "there's now abundant optimism where once there was none...
...anti-busing fight, and all three parlayed their efforts (and their Boston Globe headlines) into city dynasties. And while those dynasties faded four years ago when there were real issues in the race, this year, when there is little else to vote on, the names alone will work their magic...
...years, Edward Crane ran the city. Now, his Harvard-educated son is following close in the footsteps. Kevin P. Crane '73 emphasizes that he is a councilor for the entire city in his advertisements, and his work on the City Council in his first term has been heavy on constituent service...