Word: physicist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spectators broke and scattered. Undoubtedly, the twinkling-eyed scientist would have been arrested as police arrived, had he not identified himself as Professor Robert Williams Wood, eminent physicist of Johns Hopkins University...
...whole structure of Quantum Mechanics, which deals mathematically with the mathematically complex innards of the atom. Presumably, Herren Heisenberg and Schrodinger were forbidden to attend because of the Nazi Government's antipathy for the League of Nations. Why Dirac of democratic Britain did not appear was not disclosed. Physicist Heisenberg's paper was presented for him by colleagues from Belgium and Holland...
...most productive years of a topflight theoretical physicist appear to be about the same as those of a championship tennis player. Most of the five bigwigs of Quantum Mechanics did their most important work when they were very young men. Heisenberg, for example, laid down his celebrated Uncertainty Principle (relating to the position and velocity of electrons) when he was 26; Dirac mathematically deduced the existence of the positive electron when he was 28. Once a theorist has constructed a powerful new theory, he is likely to become fond of it and spend much energy polishing and protecting...
Locked up for millions of years in the heart of the lead atom lies a geological secret which promises to aid scientists in extending the knowledge of earth's history back farther than ever before into the ages following this planet's birth from the sun, a Harvard physicist has found...
...toward reality by wholesome experiment, and the dogmatists who use unwholesome imagination. "For the pragmatic spirit physical research is a process of evolution from what has been established to new experimental knowledge; for him there is no such thing as classical physics or modern physics, but only physics. . . . The physicist of the dogmatic school operates in quite a different manner. . . . He starts out from ideas that have arisen primarily in his own brain, or from arbitrary definitions of relationships between symbols. ... In so far as [his formulae] are found to be in accord with experience, he underlines this agreement with...