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Thomas Thundat, a man you'll meet in this week's magazine, has an unusual job title. He's a surface physicist, which means not that he has failed to probe deeply in his experiments but just the opposite. He brings a passionate scrutiny to the forces at work when one molecule comes into contact with another--when a gas seeps onto a sheet of silicon, for instance, or when a pair of large biological molecules collide and grapple. What Thundat sees in such collisions is more than academic. It has produced a new generation of microscopic sensors, based...
...Data sent by Voyager 1 showed a marked drop in the speed of solar winds and a hundredfold increase in charged particles, some of which probably originated in deep space. "Voyager is beginning to explore the final frontier of the solar system," said Edward Stone, a physicist at the California Institute of Technology. Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 is expected to continue sending data until it runs out of electricity in about...
...sound is rather like a large jet plane flying 100 feet above your house in the middle of the night." John Cramer, U.S. physicist, who concluded the Big Bang was not very loud after analyzing radiation left over from the universe's genesis
...Square" Scientist Physicist Edward Teller [Milestones, Sept. 22], the "father of the hydrogen bomb," was a fervent foe of Nazism and communism. Our Nov. 18, 1957, report noted the reasons for this opposition and described the young Teller's facility in math...
Twenty years ago he wanted to be: A physicist...