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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...collisions generated a 540 billion electron volt of energy, called a fireball, that materialized into showers of particles...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: Harvard Scientist Locates Sixth Quark | 6/29/1984 | See Source »

...interested at some point in returning to it--is Charles P. Slichter '45, a highly regarded physicist at the University of Illinois's Center for Advanced Study and the author of Principles of Magnetic Resonance, published in 1963. He also has written many articles on topics like electron spin resonance, solid state physics and chemical physics...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Silent Partners | 6/6/1984 | See Source »

...famous economics professor at Harvard, the young Slichter chose electron physics as his field. He graduated from Harvard College in 1946--after his studies were interrupted by the war--and earned his Ph.D in 1949. Slichter enjoyed what may have been one of the most interesting school-year jobs available at the time--a research assistant at the underwater Explosives Research Laboratory in Woods Hole from...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Silent Partners | 6/6/1984 | See Source »

...Using an electron microscope, a team of researchers at the University of California at Davis isolated the virus from the blood of monkeys infected with simian AIDS. In the current issue of Science, Virologist Preston Marx and his colleagues report that when the virus was injected into healthy monkeys, the animals developed the disease. The virus belongs to a family known as retroviruses, which are prime suspects as the cause of human AIDS. Said Marx of the discovery: "It gives us a marvelous opportunity to understand how a specific virus can attack the immune system and destroy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Monkey Puzzle | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

...Known as electron-transfer reactions, they involve a kind of horsetrading, in which molecules exchange some of their electrons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: From Dying Stars to Living Cells | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

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