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Top physicist to quit ‘amateur’ Britain after Stephen Hawking snub

One of the leading theoretical physicists in Britain is to leave for Canada, having failed to receive funding for his plan to set up an institute in honour of Stephen Hawking, his friend and colleague. Neil Turok, professor of mathematical physics at Cambridge University, will now realise his ambition at the Perimeter Institute in Ontario.
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Nobel-winning physicist Willis Lamb dies at 94 (AP)

AP - Willis E. Lamb Jr., a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose work on the electron structure of the hydrogen atom revolutionized the quantum theory of matter, has died. He was 94.
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WRAL.com A crash course in true political science

Daniel Suson has a doctorate in astrophysics and has worked on the superconducting super collider and a forthcoming NASA probe. Now he's heading back to school to take on an...
05/09/08
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Yahoo! News Physicist says particle will be seen...

AP - The "father" of an elusive subatomic particle said Monday he is almost sure it will be discovered in the next year in a race between powerful research equipment in the...
04/07/08
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WRAL.com Physicist Says Particle Will be Seen

The "father" of an elusive subatomic particle said Monday he is almost sure it will be discovered in the next year in a race between powerful research equipment in the United...
04/07/08
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The Wall Street Journal Climate Watchers Bet on Alaska's Thaw

Every winter since 1917, people in Nenana, Alaska, have wagered on the exact moment that the ice breaks up on the nearby Tanana River. For many geophysicists, the contest is...
03/07/08
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Yahoo! News Wetsuit's Inventor Dies ...

LiveScience.com - Undersea divers would still be shivering and facing a high risk for hypothermia if it weren't for Hugh Bradner, inventor of the first wetsuit. Bradner, a...
05/09/08
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Economist Of budgets and black holes

More fancy toys, fewer physicists to play with themFROM outside, the huge silver doughnut looks like a flight of vain architectural fancy, or perhaps a racetrack for very...
05/01/08
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Robert Jastrow

The US astronomer, cosmologist and physicist Robert Jastrow was the former director of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York and a professor at Mount Wilson Observatory and Hale Solar Laboratory.
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Physicist who developed the atom bomb, dead at 96

Physicist John Wheeler, who had a key role in the development of the atom bomb and later gave the space phenomenon black holes their name, has died at 96.
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Times Online Top physicist is urged to quit over...

The head of Britain’s main physics funding body was under pressure to resign last night after a damning report from MPs attacked his handling of an £80 million hole in its...
04/30/08
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msnbc Physicist: Bolt could have run 9.55...

A physicist has done the math, and says Usain Bolt could have run the 100-meter Olympic final in 9.55 seconds if he had not slowed down to showboat.
09/12/08
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The Independent Professor John Wheeler: Titan of...

John Wheeler was one of the titans of 20th-century physics. He collaborated with the two greatest physicists of the past 100 years - Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr. He worked...
04/17/08
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Yahoo! News Physicist John Wheeler, Einstein...

AFP - US physicist John Wheeler, one of Albert Einstein's last collaborators who helped build the atomic bomb and gave black holes their name, died at the weekend, his family...
04/15/08
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Yahoo! News U.S. physicist guilty of arms-export...

Reuters - A U.S. physicist pleaded guilty to conspiracy to violate export control laws by giving a Chinese research assistant technology for a weapons-type unmanned plane,...
04/15/08
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Telegraph.co.uk Professor John Wheeler

Physicist who worked with Bohr and Teller and coined the term 'black hole'.
04/15/08
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Los Angeles Times

John A. Wheeler, 96; physicist coined the term 'black hole'

John A. Wheeler, the fertile-minded physicist who popularized mind-stretching ideas about black holes, worm holes and quantum foam and also confounded admirers by helping to conceive some of the most potent weapons of mass destruction, has died. He was 96.
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International Herald Tribune

A crash course in true political science

Daniel Suson has a doctorate in astrophysics and has worked on the superconducting super collider and a forthcoming NASA probe. Now he's heading back to school to take on an even trickier task — getting elected to public office.
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Yahoo! News U.S. physicist guilty of arms-export...

Reuters - A U.S. physicist pleaded guilty to conspiracy to violate export control laws by giving a Chinese research assistant technology for a weapons-type unmanned plane,...
04/15/08
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Telegraph.co.uk John Wheeler, black hole physicist,...

Physicist John Wheeler, who coined the term "black hole" and helped the develop the atom bomb, has died.
04/15/08
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International Herald Tribune Physicist John Wheeler, who worked on...

Physicist John A. Wheeler, who had a key role in the development of the atom bomb and later gave the space phenomenon black holes their name, has died at 96.
04/14/08
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International Herald Tribune Physicist John Wheeler, who worked on...

Physicist John A. Wheeler, who had a key role in the development of the atom bomb and later gave the space phenomenon black holes their name, has died at 96.
04/14/08
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International Herald Tribune Theorizer of subatomic 'God particle'...

The father of a theoretical subatomic particle dubbed "the God particle" says he's almost sure it will be confirmed in the next year in a race between powerful research...
04/08/08
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The New York Times Coming to New York, a Science Event...

A panel of university presidents, Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein of New York, the actor Alan Alda, the Columbia physicist Brian Greene and a Muppet announced plans on...
04/03/08
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