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...physicist is like being a craftsman," she says. "It's a hard question, how I became a physicist. My answer depends on how I feel that...
...Tokyo was concerned, Sony America president Michael P. Schulhof had come to personify a chaos and excess that threatened to drag the company down. A protege of Morita's and Ohga's, Schulhof was a 20-year Sony veteran, a physicist who in his early years as Sony America chief had been competent enough in overseeing its lucrative electronics and music businesses. The company's disastrous foray into Hollywood, however, "changed Mickey," as one Tokyo-based Sony director puts it. Schulhof's lavish spending to remodel Sony's Madison Avenue headquarters had already drawn grumbles in Tokyo. The studio...
...didn't [initially] think I was going to be a physicist, though I knew it was something I liked," Strominger says. "It was after I got back from China that I buckled down...
DIED. NORRIS BRADBURY, 88, top physicist and for 25 years the head of the Los Alamos National Laboratory weapons-research center; in Los Alamos, N.M. A veteran of the Manhattan Project, where he helped assemble the first atom bomb, he built Los Alamos into a formidable facility that developed the first thermonuclear weapons...
...their forecasts improve, will surely couch them in caveats. As TV viewers know from nightly weather forecasts, an 80% chance of rain doesn't necessarily mean that they'll be unfurling their umbrellas. At an El Nino symposium held at headquarters in Boulder, Colo., University of Washington atmospheric physicist Edward Sarachik suggested that people most affected by the ENSO cycle--not just farmers and fishermen but also commodities traders, water-resource managers and insurance underwriters--should look at a prediction the way a savvy gambler might look at a set of dice that turns up snake eyes more frequently than...