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Nobody was paying attention to Tim Berners-Lee and his pet idea. He was a young British scientist at CERN, a high-energy physics lab in Geneva, and he had a radical new way for scientists to share data by linking documents to one another over the Internet. He had kicked around a few different names for it, including the "Infomesh" and the "Information Mine." But he wasn't getting much interest from his bosses. His proposal came back with the words "vague but exciting" written across the cover...
...political scientist, he was at the very top,” said Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, who chaired the government department during Moynihan’s time at Harvard. And true to his social science training, Moynihan was always guided by his research when formulating his policy proposals: he always tried to find solutions to fit reality, not fashion a reality to suit his solution...
...particles trapped by the magnetic field in earth-encircling rings high above the atmosphere. And Van Allen has played a key role as a principal investigator in the first missions to Venus and Mars by Mariner spacecraft and to Jupiter by the Pioneers, and has served as a participating scientist for Galileo, which is still in orbit around Jupiter...
...films in the series are linked by their time period, not by a shared genre. Lorre’s The Lost Man, his only directorial endeavor, is based on the true story of a Nazi scientist-turned-serial-killer. The film’s anti-hero, Dr. Rothe, is stalked by shadows and plagued by his past in a film that aligns itself with the expressionist oeuvres of Fritz Lang...
...scientist it is unusual to find someone who cared so much for other people.” Huang said. He also emphasized that although most people knew Amos for his work with minorities, Huang remembers the way he worked with people on a one to one basis. “He cared for individuals beyond any consideration of race, stage in life, or profession. He was also the most caring of the students than any professor I know...