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...exclusively in nuclear accelerators, that seemed to be divided into the same four types: the muon (a sort of heavy electron), the muon neutrino and two more quarks. And in 1976, Stanford University physicist Martin Perl announced he had found a third, even heavier electron, which he dubbed the tau--a discovery that earned him the other half of this year's physics Nobel. Perl's finding suggested that there might be a third family of particles, most of the other members of which were also found in the 1970s. Last spring, with the discovery of the top quark...
...feel like they are capitalizing upon the Harvard name. It's their business, but I feel like they are kind of robbing the place of some of its reputation," said Irit Tau...
Name: Irit Tau '97, co-president of the Center for International Affairs Student Council. Technique: Gives "special preference to organizations that any friends are in" but otherwise tries not to cover the "important parts of the posters," for example, the phone number to call for a sublet...
...Tau and Chan continue to linger. Tau point out that groups like the IOP are "so big that they can mow down anyone. "Perhaps their size can be correlated with the size and proliferation of their posters. Chan adds that postering is a "Sisyphean and frustrating task." But some people, like Stephanie Levin, an graduate students, poster as a work-study job and are unaware of any postering preferences except postering where it is most noticeable...
...brothers and friends of Tau Epsilon Phi mourn the loss of our brother Jonas. He was a hacker in every sense of the word, and we are going to miss him greatly. We send our love and condolences to his family, friends and everyone who knew him," Tau Epsilon Phi brother Adam C. Ganderson '97 said in a prepared statement read yesterday by the fraternity's chancellor...