physicist
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His last three films before adapting a millennia-old poem were a historical epic about an evacuation operation, a time-travel thriller that’s knotty to the point of confusion and a biopic on a physicist.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
Each smaller than a grain of rice, the sculptures pays tribute to Nobel Prize-winning physicist CV Raman and aerospace engineer and former Indian president APJ Abdul Kalam, besides Sarabhai.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
This frustrated Marcus because he otherwise liked the innovative theory that had been proposed by Willard Libby, a physicist who had helped develop the atom bomb.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
Since physicist Freeman Dyson first proposed the idea in 1960, the hypothetical "Dyson sphere" has become one of the most intriguing concepts in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026
“Swann was unhappy anywhere he could not be the prima donna,” recalled the Berkeley physicist Leonard B. Loeb, who was a faculty colleague of Swann’s at Chicago.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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To understand these cosmic objects, physicists rely on Einstein's theory of general relativity and quantum mechanics.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026
For decades, physicists lacked a theory that could explain how these two very different descriptions fit together.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026
She added that the centre in Shropshire is important for innovations and for keeping future generations of nuclear physicists in the UK.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
A team of physicists has overcome a major obstacle in quantum computing by dramatically increasing the lifetime of magnons, tiny magnetic waves that can carry quantum information.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 2, 2026
By looking at the collective motion of groups of atoms, physicists could predict the way matter behaves.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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