Word: physicist
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...Planck telescope, named after the German physicist Max Planck, aims to reveal more about how the universe was formed nearly 14 billion years ago by mapping "fossil light." This relic radiation of the Big Bang - part of the Cosmic Microwave Background - should tell astronomers more about how the large-scale structures of the universe formed and evolved...
Despite her high school involvement in theater, music, and dance, Catherine “Calla” Videt ’08-’09 entered Harvard with intentions of becoming a physicist. Now with a substantial list of acting and directing credits to her name, not to mention the first student show on the Loeb Mainstage in 15 years, it might seem as though Videt—the 2009 recipient of the Luis Sudler Prize in the Arts—has traded her passion for physics for a new one. But this is hardly the case. While...
...central character is Richard Feynman (Jesse W. Barron ’09), a physicist who played a supporting role in the Manhattan Project. Lured to the Nevada desert by Oppenheimer, Feynman divides his time between his work and his wife, who is dying of tuberculosis. Her real name was Arline Greenbaum, but here it’s Eurydice, and Catrin M. Lloyd-Bollard ’08 is appropriately enigmatic and cipher-like in the semi-mythological role...
...exploration of how to make theoretical physics manifest on stage. Inspired by the late Samuel Beckett, the play lacks a traditional form. Instead, it is divided into the intertwining stories of different couples who act almost as analogous pairs. The principle couple is Richard Feynman, the Caltech physicist who helped develop the atomic bomb, and his wife, who in this play is called Eurydice. Both are dying and reflecting on their youth. Another story involves a Biblical Adam and Eve, echoed by a modern Adam, a painter, and Eve, his lover and one of Feynman’s students...
...says her older brother, then a physics graduate student at MIT, told her, “There’s no way you can succeed in physics, and definitely not at MIT.” So she went to MIT. And majored in physics.Today she is a world-renowned physicist, president of the American Physical Society, and the incoming Dean of Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, a role she assumes at time of great financial turmoil for Harvard’s schools.But colleagues say Murray’s take-charge attitude and experience in management...