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  • These are physicists.†   (source)
  • When Langan told me his life story, I couldn't help thinking of the life of Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist who famously headed the American effort to develop the nuclear bomb during World War II.†   (source)
  • The contents of Ford Prefect's satchel were quite interesting in fact and would have made any Earth physicist's eyes pop out of his head, which is why he always concealed them by keeping a couple of dogeared scripts for plays he pretended he was auditioning for stuffed in the top.†   (source)
  • The physicists were finished with the anti-entropic fields and spent much of their time setting small flags of different colors to mark the limits of the so-called time tides.†   (source)
  • Dr. Shiv Chatterjee, fitness guru and high-energy physicist, recently stunned a live TV audience by relating the well-documented case of two women, unknown to each other, who came to him for regression in the same week, only to discover that they had been twin sisters in the lost city of Atlantis fifty thousand years ago.†   (source)
  • He was an astronomer, a physicist, a mathematician and philosopher all in one.†   (source)
  • But physicists agree that somewhere along the line there has to be a limit.†   (source)
  • Can you blame even such a renowned physicist as Gerald Luponet for claiming the whole thing is a hoax and a fraud, even in the face of such overwhelming evidence as the White Commission presented?†   (source)
  • I suppose I must get back to my physicists.†   (source)
  • In a perfect world, an economist could run a controlled experiment just as a physicist or a biologist does: setting up two samples, randomly manipulating one of them, and measuring the effect.†   (source)
  • Hoerni was a Swiss-born physicist with a degree from Cambridge.†   (source)
  • Ray Charles, a blind man, had tremendous musical accomplishments, and Stephen Hawking, the physicist, is a genius despite motor neuron disease.†   (source)
  • It would be forty-four years before physicist Donald Olson would discover that D-Day at Tarawa occurred during one of only two days in 1943 when the moon's apogee coincided with a neap tide, resulting in a tidal range of only a few inches rather than several feet.†   (source)
  • She was pretty, in that cheer-leader /student-council president/future nuclear physicist kind of way, and sitting with her posture ramrod straight, a Jump Java cup centered on the table in front of her.†   (source)
  • 'Dogmatic Freudians are generally to be regarded as akin to the medieval physicists who preceded the era of Galileo.†   (source)
  • During the 1950's, all the great advisers had been physicists: Teller and Oppenheimer and Bruckman and Weidner.†   (source)
  • It is in fact set in a parallel universe, a phenomenon known only to advanced physicists and anyone who has ever watched any episode of any SF series, anywhere.†   (source)
  • Ever since, a shift seemed to be progressing with gathering power and speed, as though the world of Einsteinian laws had intersected with a universe where the rules of energy and matter were so different as to baffle the wisest mathematicians and the proudest physicists.†   (source)
  • He is a physicist down at the nuclear plant.†   (source)
  • Even more troublesome was the opinion of two physicists, who explained, with broad smiles on their faces, that they were designing a more powerful bomb that would leave a much smaller crater.†   (source)
  • At the age of thirty, he was recognized as the greatest physicist of his time.†   (source)
  • Theoretical physicists at international conferences may speak English among themselves, but most high school and college physics teachers use their native languages in class with their students.†   (source)
  • I'm a physicist," replied the woman coolly.†   (source)
  • The quantum physicists have it right; they are beginning to think like Indians: Everything is connected dynamically at an intimate level.†   (source)
  • He was probably a physicist.†   (source)
  • Not really electronics engineer, nor physicist.†   (source)
  • "Levers," the small planetary objects physicist said, slapping his forehead.†   (source)
  • The physicist toyed with his pencil and stared into space for a while.†   (source)
  • But I've got what I need … Why don't you get yourself a good physicist?†   (source)
  • Then along came the English physicist Isaac Newton, who lived from 1642 to 1727.†   (source)
  • A physicist friend of theirs, Bob Brownell, had arrived for dinner one night in a rage.†   (source)
  • "That girl's a physicist," said Crake, as if this explained everything.†   (source)
  • The physicist lay quietly on the ground, his eyes still open as blood oozed from his head.†   (source)
  • "Hey," she said, "you're talking to an Italian marine physicist whose father worshiped Galileo."†   (source)
  • Dr. Ding, since you're a theoretical physicist, can you give us more background on it?"†   (source)
  • "All the physicists on this list have committed suicide in the last two months," General Chang said.†   (source)
  • THIS COLUMN IS IONIC Physicist graffiti?†   (source)
  • I don't suppose physicists are natural born hackers?†   (source)
  • The deaths of those physicists had nothing to do with the Frontiers of Science.†   (source)
  • I'm relieved to see that even brilliant physicists make mistakes.†   (source)
  • Our physicists represent over five hundred universities and sixty nationalities.†   (source)
  • Physicists call the process 'annihilation.'†   (source)
  • Well, I'm not really a physicist, but I was trained in physics.†   (source)
  • He's a young physicist from the Utah Institute of Technology," he said dryly.†   (source)
  • I might as well be in a room full of physicists.†   (source)
  • Are you a physicist with a grudge against your mother?†   (source)
  • We had one visitor from Earth who looked like trouble, a Dr. Dorian, physicist and engineer.†   (source)
  • The barber hadn't the slightest idea what the physicist was talking about.†   (source)
  • Instead he became a mathematical physicist.†   (source)
  • The physicist seemed more interested in his own thoughts.†   (source)
  • The physicist nodded to himself in satisfaction, leaned forward and pointed his pencil at Stormgren.†   (source)
  • Many respectable physicists said that they weren't going to stand for this, partly because it was a debasement of science, but mostly because they didn't get invited to those sorts of parties.†   (source)
  • He'd been stone-cold sober since entering the hospital, and reading a lot more about chaos theory, particularly about the work of Mitchell Feigenbaum, a physicist at Los Alamos who had made a study of the transition between order and turbulence.†   (source)
  • He is a physicist.†   (source)
  • With mounting excitement, Reynie read the next one, and sure enough, although the question itself made no mention of subatomic particles or Indian physicists, there was a long discussion of them in answer D. Not only were all the answers buried in the test, he realized, they were listed in order.†   (source)
  • He'd been working for decades now on a project of enormous sophistication, but almost none of what he had done had ever been published much less read by the physicists and philosophers and mathematicians who might be able to judge its value.†   (source)
  • Of all the Tombs, it seemed the least protected by the anti-entropic fields and the physicists had carefully mapped the times when the tide surges might pose a threat.†   (source)
  • The team of nine archaeologists and six physicists had found Keep Chronos fascinating but far too crowded with tourists and would-be Shrike pilgrims, so after the first month spent commuting from the hotel, they had set up a permanent camp between the ruined city and the small canyon holding the Time Tombs.†   (source)
  • Here is another example for you: the Danish nuclear physicist Niels Bohr is said to have told a story about Newton's having a horseshoe over his front door.†   (source)
  • "He's a physicist."†   (source)
  • She's a Japanese physicist of Chinese descent who currently works for a Japanese company here in Beijing.†   (source)
  • As the daughter of a physicist, Ye guessed that it was a reference to the double-bomb project that had shocked the world in 1964 and 1967.†   (source)
  • Through her, I met a few other physicist friends, all members of the Frontiers of Science, some Chinese, some foreign.†   (source)
  • "But you're a physicist among bugs.†   (source)
  • I thought you said he was a physicist.†   (source)
  • Author's Note: Chien-Shiung Wu was one of the most outstanding physicists of the modern era, with many accomplishments in experimental physics.†   (source)
  • Descending from the chopper in her khaki shorts and white sleeveless top, Vittoria Vetra looked nothing like the bookish physicist he had expected.†   (source)
  • Even though the Redemptionists had many first-class physicists and mathematicians, research in this area never yielded any important results.†   (source)
  • Despite my attire, which I realize you find troublesome, I am a senior level physicist at the world's most advanced subatomic research facility.†   (source)
  • But they will cause the physicists on Earth to never be able to glimpse the secrets hidden deep in the structure of matter.†   (source)
  • I thought you said she was a physicist!†   (source)
  • In the long history of scientific progress, how many protons have been smashed apart in accelerators by physicists?†   (source)
  • The ancient Buddhist art of meditative stretching seemed an odd proficiency for the physicist daughter of a Catholic priest.†   (source)
  • He considered himself a theo-physicist.†   (source)
  • As for even higher dimensions, our physicists haven't been able to explore them, so we cannot yet imagine the degree of complexity."†   (source)
  • Until the forties, some of the foremost physicists still thought it would never be possible to release the energy of the atom.†   (source)
  • She's a Bio Entanglement Physicist.†   (source)
  • She is also a physicist here at CERN.†   (source)
  • UNESCO designated 2005 the World Year of Physics, and that organization gradually developed out of the numerous academic conferences and exchanges that occurred among world physicists that year.†   (source)
  • She was the first to experimentally disprove the hypothetical "law of conservation of parity" and thereby lend support to the work of theoretical physicists Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen-Ning Yang.†   (source)
  • Other casualties include Leonardo Vetra, the renowned CERN physicist and pioneer of antimatter technology, as well as Maximilian Kohler, the director of CERN, who apparently came to Vatican City in an effort to help but reportedly passed away in the process.†   (source)
  • Thus, even if the actual target particle is occasionally struck, Earth physicists will not be able to tell the correct result from the numerous erroneous results.†   (source)
  • Theo-physicist?†   (source)
  • I know that physicists can already manipulate nine of the eleven dimensions of the micro-scale world, but we still can't imagine how they could stick a pair of tiny tweezers into a proton to build large-scale integrated circuits."†   (source)
  • I'm a physicist.†   (source)
  • Some of Italy's most enlightened men-physicists, mathematicians, astronomers-began meeting secretly to share their concerns about the church's inaccurate teachings.†   (source)
  • He wanted to stop her in midjump, stop everything for half a second, atomic clocks, body clocks, the microworld in which physicists search for time—and then run it backwards, unjump the girl, rewind the life, give us all a chance to do it over.†   (source)
  • I was hoping to learn something from him--and I did, even if it was only that I'm not that interesting to a physicist with no taste for our pop culture.†   (source)
  • John intended to be an inventor, which meant that he was to be a physicist; he was to take his postgraduate course under Robert Stadler.†   (source)
  • He's a physicist who's been working for the past year, at the Utah Institute of Technology, trying to solve the secret of the motor and to rebuild it…… Why do you look at me like that?†   (source)
  • "My work includes as much of physics and cosmology as I can take in," Alessandro said, "but that hardly makes me a physicist."†   (source)
  • She said politely, "The second question I wanted to ask you was whether you would be kind enough to tell me the name of any physicist you know who, in your judgment, would possess the ability to attempt the reconstruction of this motor."†   (source)
  • Tell them to get a physicist here.†   (source)
  • He pressed the switch on the clippers, and electricity ran through the cord, to power the magnets that spun the shaft that turned the gears that moved the blades that shaved the physicist in preparation for his execution.†   (source)
  • I have interviewed some physicists who were highly recommended to me and I have found them to be hopeless.†   (source)
  • Their choice amazed everybody but me: modern thinkers considered it unnecessary to perceive reality, and modern physicists considered it unnecessary to think.†   (source)
  • You're a physicist?†   (source)
  • Two young men, who called themselves physicists, had appeared at the Institute to escort him; his calls to Ferris' office in Washington had remained unanswered.†   (source)
  • I'm a physicist.†   (source)
  • And that's odd …. because an ability of this kind couldn't have passed unnoticed anywhere …. somebody would have called him to my attention …. they always sent promising young physicists to me….†   (source)
  • Any nineteenth century physicist could have given unassailable reasons why atom bombs were impossible if his reason were not affronted at the question; any twentieth century physicist could explain why time travel was incompatible with the real world of space-time.†   (source)
  • There was silence for several minutes while the physicist embroidered his writing-pad with meticulous and microscopic doodles.†   (source)
  • The physicist grinned.†   (source)
  • For the physicists could only have ruined the Earth: the paraphysicists could have spread havoc to the stars.†   (source)
  • There have been sad cases among the modern physicists.†   (source)
  • I was a pretty good physicist in my time.†   (source)
  • Our guests began to go, and each on leaving informed me of something my wife had promised to bring me to in the near future; it was the theme of the evening that we should all be seeing a lot of each other, that we had formed one of those molecular systems that physicists can illustrate.†   (source)
  • Already, Japanese physicists had entered the city with Lauritsen electroscopes and Neher electrometers; they understood the idea all too well.†   (source)
  • Only an unparalleled impoverishment of symbolism could enable us to rediscover the gods as psychic factors, that is, as archetypes of the unconscious…… Heaven has become for us the cosmic space of the physicists, and the divine empyrean a fair memory of things that once were.†   (source)
  • I knew a skinny, sickly Mexican too poor for socks and spotted and stained all over, body and clothes, who could crack any equation on the board; and also Bohunk wizards at the Greeks, demon-brained physicists, historians bred under pushcarts, and many hard-grain poor boys who were going to starve and work themselves bitterly eight years or so to become doctors, engineers, scholars, and experts.†   (source)
  • The scientist of today is either a mixture of psychologist and inquisitor, studying with real ordinary minuteness the meaning of facial expressions, gestures, and tones of voice, and testing the truth-producing effects of drugs, shock therapy, hypnosis, and physical torture; or he is chemist, physicist, or biologist concerned only with such branches of his special subject as are relevant to the taking of life.†   (source)
  • This succinct formulation by a modern physicist, illustrating the world picture as he saw it in 1928,27 gives precisely the sense of the mythological cosmic egg.†   (source)
  • Long before the American public had been told, most of the scientists and lots of nonscientists in Japan knew — from the calculations of Japanese nuclear physicists that a uranium bomb had exploded at Hiroshima and a more powerful one, of plutonium, at Nagasaki.†   (source)
  • Finally, the world destruction, which the physicists tell us must come with the exhaustion of our sun and ultimate running down of the whole cosmos,28 stands presaged in the scar left by the fire of Tangaroaa: the world-destructive effects of the creator-destroyer will increase gradually until, at last, in the second course of the cosmogonic cycle, all will devolve into the sea of bliss.†   (source)
  • General MacArthur's headquarters systematically censored all mention of the bomb in Japanese scientific publications, but soon the fruit of the scientists' calculations became common knowledge among Japanese physicists, doctors, chemists, journalists, professors and, no doubt, those statesmen and military men who were still in circulation.†   (source)
  • Japanese physicists, who knew a great deal about atomic fission (one of them owned a cyclotron) worried about lingering radiation at Hiroshima, and in mid-August, not many days after President Truman's disclosure of the type of bomb that had been dropped, they entered the city to make investigations.†   (source)
  • What did he think he was anyway—a bacteriologist or a bio-physicist?†   (source)
  • Did not an immortal physicist and interpreter of hieroglyphs write detestable verses?†   (source)
  • And there it was, on a shabby bed in a tawdry, ill-lighted bedroom, surrounded by a crowd of ignorant and excited people, broken and wounded, betrayed and unpitied, that Griffin, the first of all men to make himself invisible, Griffin, the most gifted physicist the world has ever seen, ended in infinite disaster his strange and terrible career.†   (source)
  • Indeed, this one presented one of those anomalies of psychic and social reflex and motivation such as would tax the skill of not only the psychologist but the chemist and physicist as well, to unravel.†   (source)
  • Lactantius, whom Constantine the Great chose to be his son's tutor, put the question quite directly: how would it help him gain his salvation if he knew the sources of the Nile or the ravings of physicists about the heavens?†   (source)
  • I'm a bacteriologist, not a physicist.†   (source)
  • Joust, the vulgar but competent bio-physicist, lacking the affection which kept Martin and Terry from reproaching the old man, told Gottlieb that he was a "rotten Director and ought to quit," and was straightway discharged and replaced by a muffin.†   (source)
  • "He is speculating in railways," said Lord Wilmore, "and as he is an expert chemist and physicist, he has invented a new system of telegraphy, which he is seeking to bring to perfection."†   (source)
  • Apparently they were engineers who understood the languages of neither the French physicist Arago nor the English physicist Faraday.†   (source)
  • It was the Dutch navigator Tasman who discovered this group in 1643, the same year the Italian physicist Torricelli invented the barometer and King Louis XIV ascended the French throne.†   (source)
  • As a physicist he had learned that of the 70 years of complete human life at least 2/7, viz.†   (source)
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