• To fix what appeared to be a flaw in general relativity, Einstein adjusted his equations, adding a factor he called the cosmological constant-a kind of antigravity force-so that the equations yielded an unchanging cosmos. (discovermagazine.com)
  • Indian-born theoretical physicist Abhay Vasant Ashtekar on Tuesday received the prestigious Einstein prize conferred by the American Physical Society. (hindustantimes.com)
  • Fifteen years ago, American Physical Society awarded its first Einstein prize jointly to Peter Bergmann and John Wheeler. (hindustantimes.com)
  • Albert do not bet this man, for as sure as you are standing there, Einstein (physicist, 1879-1955). (cdc.gov)
  • Last month, American theoretical astrophysicist Ethan Siegel wrote in Big Think about why these vacuum-tube travel concoctions can't work. (thebulwark.com)
  • Indian-born theoretical physicist Abhay Vasant Ashtekar was awarded for "numerous and seminal contributions" to the field of gravitational physics. (hindustantimes.com)
  • This transcript may not be quoted, reproduced or redistributed in whole or in part by any means except with the written permission of the American Institute of Physics. (aip.org)
  • This transcript is based on a tape-recorded interview deposited at the Center for History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics. (aip.org)
  • The April 21, 1997 issue of *Physical Review Letters* (on the web, search for 'American Institute of Physics') has an article (pp. 3043-3046) by physicists Borge Nodland and John Ralston titled, 'Indication of anisotropy in electromagnetic propagation over cosmological distances. (creation.com)
  • This interview was conducted as part of the Archives for the History of Quantum Physics project, which includes tapes and transcripts of oral history interviews conducted with ca. 100 atomic and quantum physicists. (aip.org)
  • Your download What Does led a quantum that this colonial could n't travel. (kroemmling.de)
  • One very well known member of this lineage was Galileo Galilei, the physicist and. (houseofnames.com)
  • To inform himself more fully of the situation in Europe and to apprise the Europeans of the new Rockefeller initiative, Rose traveled to nineteen different countries between December 1923 and April 1924, talking with scientists of note and generally observing the state of science. (maa.org)
  • Generally speaking, physicists study physical properties and changes, while chemists are concerned with chemical processes and changes. (encyclopedia.com)
  • So it came as a shock when, in 1922, an obscure Russian physicist and meteorologist named Alexander Friedmann showed that Einstein's masterpiece theory described a universe that should either collapse on itself or fly apart. (discovermagazine.com)
  • Robert Solow, won the Nobel Prize in Economics for work that showed that the bulk of economic growth did not come from putting more factors of production such as labour and capital to work. (indiatimes.com)
  • Ashtekar is likely to spend $10,000 of his prize money to contribute to scientific societies or support travel expenses of young scientists to conferences. (hindustantimes.com)
  • The other joint winners of this year's medicine prize, William Campbell of America and Satoshi Omura of Japan, were recipients for their discovery of the drug Avermectin, used against some particularly nasty parasitic worms. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • After releasing plans for subway-style urban mass transit systems for Los Angeles and Chicago, and claiming he had " verbal govt approval " for a New York-Philadelphia-Baltimore-D.C. line, he described sharing space with other humans while traveling as what a reporter described as "kind of icky. (thebulwark.com)
  • So I am making an alien world where time travels 10 times faster than earth's. (stackexchange.com)
  • The magnetosphere also contains the Van Allen radiation belts , where highly energized protons and electrons travel back and forth between the poles of Earth's magnetic field . (britannica.com)
  • The notion of a conducting region was reinvoked by others, notably in 1902 by the American engineer Arthur E. Kennelly and the English physicist Oliver Heaviside , to explain the transmission of radio signals around the curve of Earth's surface before definitive evidence was obtained in 1925. (britannica.com)
  • Given the fact that light travels at 186,000 mi (299,339 km) per second, the quantities of energy available from even a tiny object traveling at that speed are enormous indeed. (encyclopedia.com)
  • She was a member of a number of professional associations in the United States, including the American Physical Society, the American Association of Physics Teachers, and Sigma Xi: The Scientific Research Honor Society. (wikipedia.org)
  • Her work has appeared in Business Insider, Scientific American and the Christian Science Monitor. (insidescience.org)
  • Scientific American, 208(5), 45-63. (uni-muenchen.de)
  • His discussions with these and other mathematicians helped him not only formulate an international slate of potential fellowship candidates but also determine viable places for American mathematicians to further their studies abroad. (maa.org)
  • In 1978 I got permission to travel abroad again after a 17-year interruption, and went to Brussels to attend the Solvay Conference, where I met Phil Anderson, Leo Kadanoff, Mike Fisher, and many others. (aps.org)
  • Eventually he was allowed to travel abroad, usually accompanied by his daughter. (bcbooklook.com)
  • Thoughts on work and life from particle physicists from around the world. (quantumdiaries.org)
  • 51.5-second half-life) was first observed in 1899 by American scientist Robert B. Owens and British scientist Ernest Rutherford, who noticed that some of the radioactivity of thorium compounds could be blown away by breezes in the laboratory. (britannica.com)
  • Cooling applications are currently the leading commercial applications of thermoelectric devices," says study co-senior author Kris Bertness , a semiconductor physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colo. "The form factor and material composition of these devices makes them a good match for cooling hot spots in computer chips. (ieee.org)
  • A study led by a University of Texas planetary physicist has compiled an exhaustive catalog of all known planet-hosting triple-stellar systems, considering different types of planetary orbits and examining past controversies. (scitechdaily.com)
  • Manfred Cuntz, a planetary physicist from The University of Texas at Arlington , has led a new study that catalogs all known planet-hosting, triple-stellar systems-those having three or more stars with planets. (scitechdaily.com)
  • The rem is calculated by multiplying the absorbed dose (rad) by a quality (Q) factor or the radiation weighting factor (RWF), which reflects the differences in the amount of potential biological effect for each type of radiation. (medscape.com)
  • For more equitable decision-making during future pandemics, barriers to ascertaining attributable mortality in low-income settings must be addressed and factored into discourse around reported impact differences. (cdc.gov)
  • Mutation breeding dates to the early 1920s, when American geneticists discovered x-ray radiation could increase the rate at which genomic errors appeared in fruit flies, barley and maize. (riken.jp)
  • She defined her role on the committee as providing technical expertise as well as to serve as a liaison to the African American community. (cdc.gov)
  • A number of outstanding young physicists from China with cutting-edge research achievements now have global recognition. (aps.org)
  • Early in his career he helped make ends meet by teaching French politics to eager young Americans in the Sweetbriar junior year in France program. (bu.edu)
  • Hedwig Kohn (5 April 1887 - 26 November 1964) was a physicist who was one of only three women (along Lise Meitner and Hertha Sponer) to obtain habilitation (the qualification for university teaching) in physics in Germany before World War II. (wikipedia.org)
  • Offered temporary positions at three women's colleges in the United States through the aid of Rudolf Ladenburg, Lise Meitner, Hertha Sponer, the American Association of University Women, and many others, Kohn left Germany. (wikipedia.org)
  • He has even confessed to loving fast food and is a nice guy with lots of American-style gregariousness who enjoys women, eating and drinking with the people, kissing babies, and pressing the flesh. (bu.edu)
  • Here, the exchange of table tennis (ping-pong) players between the United States and People's Republic of China (PRC) in the early 1970s marked a thaw in Sino-American relations that paved the way to a visit to Beijing by President Richard Nixon. (aps.org)
  • Léon Theremin is the westernized name of Lev Sergeevich Termen, a Russian physicist who is credited with understanding the musical capabilities of the Russian research in 1920. (bcbooklook.com)
  • said American physicist Richard Feynman before computer scientists at a conference in 1981 . (purdue.edu)
  • C.N. Yang, T.D. Lee, and other American scientists of Chinese descent visited mainland China and gave lectures. (aps.org)
  • There is such an array of schools, programs and locations that the choices may overwhelm students, even those from the U.S. As you begin your school search, it's important to familiarize yourself with the American education system. (edu-consultancy.com)
  • Early explorers would travel exhaustively in search of exotic spices, legumes and herbal elixirs. (riken.jp)
  • inflammatory bowel disease: …mutation of a gene called TNFSF15 (tumour necrosis factor ligand superfamily member 15), which is involved in suppressing inflammation, has been identified as an ethnic-specific IBD susceptibility gene. (britannica.com)
  • That paper spelled out how an observer's motion through space affects his motion through time (to someone traveling at nearly the speed of light, time slows to a crawl), but it said nothing about treating time as a fourth dimension in a continuum of space-time. (discovermagazine.com)
  • Our American colleagues were very much impressed as evidenced by their comments in the published official report Solid State Physics in the People's Republic of China (National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, 1976). (aps.org)
  • In solid materials, these vibrations travel as quasiparticles known as phonons . (ieee.org)
  • Prior to higher education, American students attend primary and secondary school for a combined total of 12 years. (edu-consultancy.com)
  • It had been a tool for physicists for years, but Abe wanted to use it to breed plants. (riken.jp)
  • The scale factor lambda is such that the maximum value of beta is about 10 degrees for each billion light-years of distance from us. (creation.com)
  • These rejections recall the words of Arthur Eddington, a brilliant British physicist and one of Einstein's most tireless champions: "Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. (discovermagazine.com)
  • One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to "You cannot hope to bribe or twist / Thank God the come up to you and show you a nice brand-new deck of British journalist / But when you see what he will do un- cards on which the seal is not yet broken, and this guy is go- bribed / There's no occasion to. (cdc.gov)
  • This year's Nobel Prizes go to Tunisians, a writer from Belarus, as well as Turkish, Swedish, Chinese, Canadian, American and Japanese researchers - along with a Scottish-American economist. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • With the blessings of the U.S. public, the American theoretician and computer expert Ray Kurzweil prophesies that within our lifetime, computers will exceed human brain power. (edge.org)
  • Mr. Vonnegut's brother, Bernard, who died in 1997, was a physicist and an expert on thunderstorms. (ipl.org)
  • Speaking off of photos from his extensive travels, Cohen frames his core ideas to make them relevant to a broad range of audiences, industries and areas of interest - leaving all with an incomparable perspective on our rapidly changing world. (allamericanspeakers.com)
  • Just like American students, you will have to submit your academic transcripts as part of your application for admission to university or college. (edu-consultancy.com)
  • But even so, Obama's not the kind of guy who wants to deal with X factors in the middle of the campaign: That's why the Bush tax cuts were extended until after election day and why he insisted on a debt-ceiling deal that would carry through past November of next year. (typepad.com)
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  • The planet travels back in time again and again. (stackexchange.com)
  • The first was proposed by physicist Robert Forward in that negative mass has the effect of speeding up time relative to everything that outside the region dominated by negative mass. (stackexchange.com)
  • This doesn't speed up time in an unlimited way,the speed-up factor is only square of two faster. (stackexchange.com)
  • Each of these areas would be significantly enhanced if computers could factor in more variables and process them at the same time. (purdue.edu)
  • The missile strike appeared to be the first time in the United States-led war on terrorism since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that an American citizen had been deliberately targeted and killed by American forces. (typepad.com)
  • Jacques Chirac has become the most disliked Frenchman of our time, called a worm, a weasel, a surrender monkey, a co-conspirator with Saddam Hussein, and the individual most responsible for preventing allegedly eager nations from supporting the American war. (bu.edu)
  • One fact that people probably don't realize is that we have a full-time physicist on staff. (manufacturing-today.com)
  • series physicists and online patients that was have the document of the word to the only book. (kroemmling.de)
  • Physicists call that a singularity, a place where the normal laws of nature break down. (discovermagazine.com)
  • he saw that America could envision and accomplish great things, almost without limits and often in totally unconventional ways. (raoulwallenberg.net)
  • During the Middle Ages, as populations grew and travel between regions became more frequent, the people of Tuscany found it necessary to adopt a second name to identify themselves and their families. (houseofnames.com)
  • This enabled the inventor to shock many people with his marriage to the prima ballerina of the American Negro Ballet Company, Lavinia Williams. (bcbooklook.com)
  • American Society for Information Science. (gadwall.com)
  • [2] And as he became more important, he deepened friendships with Americans and kept in touch with American society. (bu.edu)
  • There was no direct scientific exchange between the U.S. and China, but China was able to send a small delegation to attend the annual meeting of the Canadian Association of Physicists. (aps.org)
  • Instead, it came from putting those factors of production together more cleverly, that is, from what he called total factor productivity growth. (indiatimes.com)
  • In his early twenties, after graduating from the Ecole Nationale d Administration, France s factory for producing technocrats, he washed dishes in Harvard Square, worked his way down the Mississippi to New Orleans, and fell in love with an American woman. (bu.edu)
  • When Birkhoff toured Europe from February through September 1926 as a "traveling professor" funded by and reporting to the IEB, he submitted a somewhat different assessment: the top countries in mathematics internationally were, first, Germany, followed by the United States, France, Italy, and England, while the most important mathematical center was Paris followed by Rome and Göttingen. (maa.org)
  • This is where speed becomes an important factor. (insidescience.org)
  • Now, there are many forces that act upon a train traveling down tracks, all of which are significant. (insidescience.org)
  • However, the factors influencing the quality of these clinician-derived segmentations have yet to be fully understood or quantified. (bvsalud.org)
  • After touring Europe giving exhibitions to full houses, he patented the instrument in the U.S. Unfortunately the stock marker crash of 1929 was a factor in limiting the success of the RCA Thereminvox. (bcbooklook.com)
  • The complex interplay of (1) genetic, (2) environmental, and (3) social factors requires sophisticated and thoughtful interventions on the part of health care providers. (medscape.com)