Word: physicist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hidden (and most interesting) theme which ties the scientific portions of Interactions together is the quest for theories which simply and elegantly explain observations of nature. Glashow refers to this as "the rock-bottom faith of the physicist in the underlying simplicity of nature's laws...
Glashow attempts to make this theme explicit by looking into the minds of the scientists who have contributed the significant theoretical advances which constitute our present knowledge. Glashow indeed promises us just such a study in the book's subtitle, "A Journey Through the Mind of a Particle Physicist and the Matter of this World...
Arizona's Physicist Douglas Donahue says that the three laboratories reached a "remarkable agreement," all estimating dates within 100 years of one another. Averaging of the data produced a 95% probability that the shroud originated between 1260 and 1380 and near absolute certainty that it dates from no earlier than 1200. However, some Catholics held out the slim hope that there was a scientific oversight and the shroud might be redated someday...
...Harvard physicist has concluded that superconductors generate an unanticipated resistance that jeopardizes some of their most highlytouted applications, and he will present some of his latest findings in a soon-to-be published article...
...radiation scattered by waves. At first, scientists had to correct their data for errors introduced by everything from sunspot activity to changes in the ozone levels of the upper atmosphere. "It wasn't just getting bigger computers, better instruments, better physics or better computer languages," says Robert Evans, a physicist at the University of Miami's Remote Sensing Laboratory. "We needed all of those...