physicist
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"He was a great theoretical physicist and a leader of quantum materials research at UChicago," Yang said.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
A physicist by training, Amodei turned to biology for his doctorate.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
One example was the case of Chinese physicist Fang Lizhi, who took refuge in the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
"It's an incredibly exciting time, the kind of event every astro-particle physicist dreams of, and we can't wait to analyse more data to see if additional candidate events appear."
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
Discovered in the mid-1920s by German physicist Wolfgang Pauli, the exclusion principle states, roughly, that no two things can be in the same place at the same time.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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Wang grew up in New Mexico, where his parents worked as physicists at Los Alamos National Laboratory, the famous site of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer’s work on the Manhattan Project.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Known to physicists as big G, this fundamental number determines the strength of gravitational attraction throughout the universe.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
Together with the upgraded High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider, these improvements are expected to provide vastly larger data sets and give physicists new opportunities to investigate quantum phenomena at extreme energies.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
That persistent mismatch has created an uncomfortable question for physicists.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
Remarkably, the phenomenon was proved in 1997 when physicists at the University of Geneva sent photons seven miles in opposite directions and demonstrated that interfering with one provoked an instantaneous response in the other.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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