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MIT professors win awards for physics achievements
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(The Tech) (U-WIRE) CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- MIT Professors of Physics Frank
Wilczek and Alan Guth '68 recently won awards marking them as leaders
in theoretical physics. Wilczek won the Lorentz Medal for his work
in particle physics, and Guth won the Dirac Medal for his research
into the expansion of the early universe.
The Lorentz Medal in physics is awarded every four years by the Royal
Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. The prize has a prestigious
history with past winners including Max Planck and Wolfgang Pauli,
both of whom later won the Nobel Prize in Physics. ...
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Wind instruments common thread at multi-cultural presentation. (Winds of the World, in Detroit)
PR Newswire
; ...Feb. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- "Winds of the World," a multi...music played on a variety of wind instruments, will be held...inter-cultural events, "Winds of the World" is co-sponsored...Admission is free. With wind instruments as the common theme, the...Relations Division: "The wind ...
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Contest celebrates Yamaha's ten millionth wind instrument.(INDUSTRY FOREFRONT)
Magazine article from: Music Trades
; ...millionth wind instrument with an essay contest...in Yamaha wind instruments and a second prize...000 in Yamaha wind instruments will...describing how Yamaha wind instruments contributed...America, Attn: Winds Department, 6600...woodwind and brass ...
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Midi: harmony for wind instruments
Magazine article from: Canadian Musician
; MIDI Harmony for Wind Instruments Once the exclusive realm...development of electronic wind instruments, sax and trumpet players...recently however, wind instrument players have been able to use their own instruments with the introduction...
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 "Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)")
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Answer to boy's asthma is blowing in the wind; Youngster is cured after taking up instrument.(News)
Newspaper article from: Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
; ...loves it. "He had a little instrument which he wasn't getting...at all. "I've heard of wind instruments helping children with asthma...definitely recommend trying a wind instrument to others with asthma as...evidence to suggest playing wind instruments helps sufferers manage ...
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The New Langwill Index: A Dictionary of Musical Wind-Instrument Makers and Inventors.
Magazine article from: Notes
; ...scholars of wind instruments have been...Musical Wind-Instrument Makers in...of names of instrument makers outside...used on the instruments. Representative instruments are noted...normally only one instrument of each type...
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SPECIALIZED SURFACE WIND INSTRUMENTS FLY ONBOARD NATION'S HURRICANE HUNTER FLEET
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; ...through hurricanes now have instruments that measure surface winds, giving forecasters at NOAA...powerful storm systems. The instrument, known as a stepped frequency...foam created on the sea by winds at the surface. Computers...aircraft then determine surface wind speeds based on the ...
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A medical risk, or just hot air? ; Legislators debate requiring schools to sterilize wind instruments
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...advice on cleaning their instruments: a little soap and water...schools to sterilize musical wind instruments, like clarinets, flutes...bacteria can live inside a wind instrument for several months, but...standards should apply to band instruments as those applied to medical...
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Weril's hi-tech Brazilian band instruments: for over 100 years, the Weingrill family has been crafting a complete line of wind instruments in Brazil ... now they're ready to tackle the U.S. market. (Company Profile).
Magazine article from: Music Trades
; ...be associated with quality wind instruments. For the past eight years...a more than a century of instrument-making experience. As...manufacturing and repairing instruments in their native Austria...where they continued their instrument building. Then in 1897...
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Get wind of way to help asthma; A North East brass festival has launched a study into links between playing wind instruments and helping to manage asthma In association with NHS North East.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
; ...is growing evidence that wind instruments can help people manage breathing...evidence to suggest playing wind instruments helps asthma sufferers to...links between playing a wind instrument and the easing of asthma...benefits of wind and brass instruments to people with ...
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Bibliography and Discography on Music for Solo Wind Instruments and Orchestra.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Notes
; ...Discography on Music for Solo Wind Instruments and Orchestra. By Hermann...gather information on all the wind concertos by a given composer...research scientist with a love of wind concertos. He has endeavored...listings of all works for solo winds and orchestra, string orchestra...
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