Word: physicist
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...course, there are the Nobel Laureates--most of whom are dead, since Harvard carefully lists all those who have graced its halls dating back to 1914. But among the Nobel Laureates still teaching at Harvard are Higgins Professor of Physics Sheldon L. Glashow; Gade University Professor Nicolaas Bloembergen--another physicist and one of the most vocal academic opponents to President Reagan's Star Wars program; Baird Professor of Science Dudley R. Herschbach, one of the most accessible professors at the University; and Loeb University Professor Walter Gilbert, chair of the Biology Department...
While the recent flares did not measure up to the March conflagration, astronomers were jubilant. "We have been exceptionally lucky," says Alan Kiplinger, a solar physicist at the University of Colorado. "It's unusual to have the sun cooperate...
While all that may be true, says Caltech physicist Robert Leighton, "if the sun didn't have a magnetic field, it would be as dull as most nighttime astronomers think it is." What a difference a field makes. Twisted and stretched by both the sun's rotation and its roiling interior, the magnetic lines of force orchestrate the intriguing solar cycle...
...challenging as the sun. A "lopsided liberal-arts graduate" of Bryn Mawr College who joined TIME in 1965, Nash credits her fascination with such topics to a firm belief that "nothing is so difficult that it can't be understood with a little effort." Her marriage to a physicist helps, allowing her "to absorb a feel for how scientists think and operate, virtually by osmosis...
...story unfolded, it made for some odd conversations among staffers in the San Francisco bureau, where Nash is currently based. Office manager Olivia Stewart found herself fielding enigmatic tips about solar activity. Many came from Patrick McIntosh, a solar physicist in Boulder. As Nash tells it, "Olivia would say with mock concern that 'Pat McIntosh called again to say the sun was acting kind of strange.' Then she would burst out laughing." Last week, as the story was going to press, the sun graciously cooperated by ejecting a huge arch of gas that some astronomers pronounced the largest explosion they...