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- Cooling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Laser cooling opened a new route to ultralow temperature physics. Laser cooling experiments, with room temperature vacuum chambers and easy optical access, look very different from cryogenic cells with multi-layer thermal shielding around them.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lester Germer was my first supervisor at Bell Labs. He was the Germer of the Davisson and Germer Experiment that is sometimes referred to in introductory texts on physics.
- Bump
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- Nov 07, 2020
Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a previous life I wrote the software that controlled my physics experiments. That software had to deal with all kinds of possible failures in equipment. That is probably where I learned to rely on multiple safety nets inside and around my systems.
- Laboratory
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the recommendation of my professor in experimental physics, Paul Scherrer, I took an assistantship for electron microscopy at the Biophysics Laboratory at the University of Geneva in November 1953. This laboratory was animated by Eduard Kellenberger, and it had two prototype electron microscopes requiring much attention.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the 1950s, the Biophysics Laboratory at the University of Geneva was lucky enough to receive each summer for several months the visit of Jean Weigle. He was the former professor of experimental physics at the University of Geneva.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bohr's influence on the physics and the physicists of our century was stronger than that of anyone else, even than that of Albert Einstein.
- Say
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many applications of the coincidence method will therefore be found in the large field of nuclear physics, and we can say without exaggeration that the method is one of the essential tools of the modern nuclear physicist.
- Planned
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- Nov 07, 2020
Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am fascinated by quantum physics.
- Biology
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- Nov 07, 2020
Relativity must replace absolutism in the realm of morals as well as in the spheres of physics and biology.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
In politics, as in physics, every reaction is met with an equal and opposite reaction.
- Nov 07, 2020
I got into physics through pop science and quantum science and ended up being such a quantum groupie.
- Modern
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- Nov 07, 2020
Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.
- Fields
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- Nov 07, 2020
Theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap - it is all in the mind.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was already studying physics, but Sputnik steered me toward space, cosmology, the Big Bang, and elementary particles.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The new formula in physics describes humans as paradoxical beings who have two complementary aspects: They can show properties of Newtonian objects and also infinite fields of consciousness.
- Accelerator
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nevertheless, if I have at times been able to make original contributions in the accelerator field, I cannot help feeling that to a certain extent my slightly amateur approach in physics, combined with much practical experience, was an asset.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics.
- Graduate Student
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- Nov 07, 2020
Eight months later, having left Columbia, I was studying physics in a summer program and working in Colorado when I decided to enroll as a graduate student in biophysics.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a very good student. But I didn't have the latitude to study more. I was never allowed to do anything cross-disciplinary. Why can't an engineering student learn physics?
- Mathematics
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I got started in my own engineering course, my interest in physics and maths was very high. After all, engineering is all about applied maths and physics. If I were to learn anything further in physics or mathematics, it simply was not there.
- Words
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- Nov 07, 2020
Physics has the cutest words.
- Attempting
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- Nov 07, 2020
What the string theorists do is arguably physics. It deals with the physical world. They're attempting to make a consistent theory that explains the interactions we see among particles and gravity as well. That's certainly physics, but it's a kind of physics that is not yet testable.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1956, when I began doing theoretical physics, the study of elementary particles was like a patchwork quilt. Electrodynamics, weak interactions, and strong interactions were clearly separate disciplines, separately taught and separately studied. There was no coherent theory that described them all.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
Would physics at Geneva be as good as physics at Harvard? I think not. Rome? I think not. In Britain, I don't think there is one place, neither Cambridge nor Oxford, which can compare with Harvard.
- Principal
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the principal achievements of physics in the 20th century has been the revelation that the atom is not indivisible or elementary at all but has a complex structure.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the late '30's when I was in college, physics - and in particular, nuclear physics - was the most exciting field in the world.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a problem with telling jokes about physics. Quite often the audience have no idea what you are talking about and, to be honest, I don't know what I'm talking about either.
- Rice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Following Rice, I went to Caltech for a Ph.D in physics, without any strong idea of what I wanted to do for a thesis topic.
- Mathematics
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a close analogy between organic chemistry in its relation to biochemistry and pure mathematics in its relation to physics.
- Animal Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's absolutely correct and in addition to that life just isn't an accident of the laws of physics. There's a long list of experiments that suggest just the opposite.
- Possible
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- Nov 07, 2020
Physics tells us observations can't be predicted absolutely. Rather, there's a range of possible observations each with a different probability.
- Pure
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics is the world's greatest pure physics thinktank, and it's located here in Canada, in Waterloo, Ont.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was not an especially diligent student but nevertheless obtained a reasonable education in physics.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
I decided to sell my drawings. However, I didn't want people to buy my drawings because the professor of physics isn't supposed to be able to draw - isn't that wonderful - so I made up a false name.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Atoms are very special: they like certain particular partners, certain particular directions, and so on. It is the job of physics to analyze why each one wants what it wants.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I want to understand the laws of physics I have to first believe what I read about physics. I have to have faith in what I read.
- Some
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- Nov 07, 2020
The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point it was inevitable that we would develop a technology that would let us do this.
- Astronomy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a professor of astronomy and physics at Yale University, where I teach an introductory class in cosmology. I see the deficiencies that first-year students show up with.
- Nov 07, 2020
We live, I think, in the century of science and, perhaps, even in the century of physics.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
I gained a first class degree in Physics at Imperial College London in 1968 and did research in solid state physics, but did not pursue meteorology matters until gaining an M.Sc. in astrophysics from Queen Mary College London in 1981, after which I investigated and attempted to construct theories of solar activity.
- Exam
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- Nov 07, 2020
My recollection of the higher school certificate, which involved a practical exam in physics, was being confronted with an experiment involving a sort of barometer arrangement, wondering why I couldn't make it work.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an undergrad, I studied engineering physics at the University of Oklahoma, and all my degrees are from engineering departments. My father wanted me to join him in the oil-field business in Oklahoma, but I wanted to be a scientist.
- Limits
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a student, the laws of physics were regarded as completely off limits. The job of the scientist, we were told, is to discover the laws and apply them, not inquire into their provenance.
- Birth
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- Nov 07, 2020
The birth of science as we know it arguably began with Isaac Newton's formulation of the laws of gravitation and motion. It is no exaggeration to say that physics was reborn in the early 20th-century with the twin revolutions of quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity.
- Branches
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- Nov 07, 2020
The methods of theoretical physics should be applicable to all those branches of thought in which the essential features are expressible with numbers.
- Difficulty
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fundamental laws necessary for the mathematical treatment of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the difficulty lies only in the fact that application of these laws leads to equations that are too complex to be solved.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The development of physics, like the development of any science, is a continuous one.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Julian Assange is self-consciously an individual. He thinks in his own way, primarily as a physicist, having studied pure maths and physics at university in Australia where he grew up.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never got into 'Star Wars.' Maybe because they made no attempt to portray real physics. At all.
- Keep
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not keep up with the details of particle physics.
- Kid
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ever since I was a kid, I've had an enormous interest in the sciences - everything from quantum physics to anthropology.
- Chemistry
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- Nov 07, 2020
And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same thing as explanations in terms of physics and chemistry.
- Determined
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- Nov 07, 2020
No inanimate object is ever fully determined by the laws of physics and chemistry.
- Business School
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's obviously unfair to paint with a broad brush here, but the germ of an idea for a breakthrough in technology doesn't come out of a business school curriculum. It comes out of a laboratory or a math lecture or a physics tutorial.
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fly flight is just a great phenomenon to study. It has everything - from the most sophisticated sensory biology; really, really interesting physics; really interesting muscle physiology; really interesting neural computations.
- Finally
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fascinated by history during my secondary education, then by physics and mechanics at the Ecole Polytechnique, I finally entered the national administration of mines in 1936.
- Fellowship
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1948 I was appointed to a Lectureship in Physics and in 1949 elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College.
- Modern
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- Nov 07, 2020
When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself into the method of the totally calculable.
- First Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is just physics - who can argue with Newton and the first law of thermodynamics?
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
At school I briefly wanted to be a palaeontologist, but I was no good at chemistry and physics.
- Chemistry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Much remains to be learned about stratospheric chemistry - and, in more general terms, about the physics and chemistry of the global atmosphere.
- Mathematics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't know what kinds of questions to ask in mathematics. In physics, I could see there were things that were known and things that weren't.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I received my B. S. degree in 1932, only two of the fundamental particles of physics were known.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always enjoyed explaining physics. In fact it's more than just enjoyment: I need to explain physics.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Physics is perceived as a lonesome, nerdy kind of enterprise that has very little to do with human feelings and the things that excite people day-to-day about each other. Yet physicists in their own working environment are very social creatures.
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- Nov 07, 2020