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...Beta Kappa Literary Exercises, at 11, with physicist and Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg as orator, and poet Carl Phillips. Sanders Theatre...
University President Drew G. Faust joined MIT President Susan Hockfield, a biologist, and University of Massachusetts President Jack M. Wilson, a physicist, in co-authoring a letter to the legislature last month that underscored the need for funding to remain flexible as research develops...
...like Ford’s eco-netic focus model. “We will sell whatever people want to buy,” said Cischke. “An eco-netic is considered a very small car here.”Following the talk, one audience member, a retired physicist, asked whether car companies should prioritize consumer interests over environmental concerns.“[Why is] driving four people in an eco-conscious station wagon a badge of shame?” he asked. “I drive a four-cylinder car, and the performance isn?...
...Grosz was named Radcliffe’s dean of science. Colleagues said she has since been instrumental in luring leading scientists away from their labs to Radcliffe. Recent science fellows include renowned physicist Lisa Randall and Maria Zuber, the first woman to lead a science department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...expert in nuclear fission who taught at Princeton and the University of Texas and authored five books, physicist John Wheeler--who coined the term black hole--was involved in many of the major scientific breakthroughs of the 20th century. As a member of the Manhattan Project, he collaborated with Albert Einstein and others to create the atom bomb. Unlike some colleagues who agonized over the weapon's awful power, he regretted only that it hadn't been used sooner. He often recalled a letter from his brother, who was later killed in World War II, that read simply, "Hurry...