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Abdus Salam
Abdus Salam 1926-96, Pakistani physicist. After attending Government College at Lahore, he received a Ph.D. from Cambridge (1952). He taught in Lahore for three years before returning to England, first teaching mathematics at Cambridge (1954-57), then moving to Imperial College in London, where he... Read more |
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Sheldon Lee Glashow
Sheldon Lee Glashow , 1932-, American physicist, b. New York City, Ph.D. Harvard, 1959. He became a professor at the Univ. of California at Berkeley in 1961 before moving to Harvard in 1967. He helped develop important theories of electromagnetic and nuclear particle interaction that affected... Read more |
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Steven Weinberg
Steven Weinberg 1933-, American nuclear physicist, b. New York City, Ph.D. Princeton Univ., 1957. He helped develop important theories of electromagnetic and nuclear particle interaction that were experimentally verified in 1982-83 when Carlo Rubbia and Simon van der Meer identified the... Read more |
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Wormholes
Wormholes Space-time wormholes are hypothetical objects in German-born Jewish physicist Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, where intense gravitational fields warp space and time to provide shortcuts from one part of our universe to another (or worse, perhaps, a... Read more |
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Stephen Hawking
Hawking, Stephen (1942- ) English physicist Stephen Hawking has been called the most insightful theoretical physicist since Albert Einstein . His work concentrates on the puzzling cosmic bodies called black holes and extends to such specialized fields as particle physics , supersymmetry, and... Read more |
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Aage Niels Bohr
Aage Niels Bohr , 1922-, Danish physicist, Ph.D. Univ. of Copenhagen, 1954. He worked with his father Niels Bohr (who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922) in the 1940s on the development of the atomic bomb and succeeded (1963) him as director of the Niels Bohr Institute of Theoretical Physics.... Read more |
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Max von Laue
Max von Laue , 1879-1960, German physicist, studied under Max Planck. From 1919 he was professor of theoretical physics at the Univ. of Berlin. He worked out a method for measuring X-ray wavelengths, in which a crystal (rock salt) is used, producing diffraction of the rays. For this work, which also... Read more |
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Shirley Ann Jackson (American physicist)
Shirley Ann Jackson 1946— Physicist, government official Bumblebees, Go-Karts, and Particle Physics Became Read more |
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Georg von Hevesy
Georg von Hevesy , 1885-1966, Hungarian physicist and chemist. He received the 1943 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on the use of isotopes as tracers in studying chemical processes. Hevesy was the first to apply the radioactive tracer technique to biology, and he later used it in medical... Read more |
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Tsung-Dao Lee
Tsung-Dao Lee , 1926-, American physicist, b. China, Ph.D. Univ. of Chicago, 1950. He was a member (1951-53) of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; and professor of theoretical physics there (1960-63). He also served as professor at Columbia (1953-60, 1963-). Lee is known for his studies in... Read more |
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Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Abdus Salam Dies at 70
Abdus Salam, 70, the Indian-born son...cause of death was given. Dr. Salam, one of the world's foremost theoretical physicists, was known for making significant...areas of physics in which Dr. Salam specialized appear ... |
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Emerging from the shadow of Abdus Salam: once a scientific oasis during the...
...backed Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics...and U.S. physicists to meet during...Indian-born physicist who took...prominent physicists, including...Pakistani physicist ... |
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Obituary: Professor Abdus Salam
Abdus Salam was one of the foremost theoretical physicists...moment. Physicists had just...Freeman Dyson. Salam and his research...theories. Salam's very...chair of Theoretical Physics...great ... |
 "The Economist (US)")
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Physics for the poor. (Abdus Salam's International Centre for Theoretical...
...Pakistani called Abdus Salam earned a...particle physicists) overnight...the only theoretical physicist in the country...Since then Abdus Salam's theories...way that physicists think; ... |
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Dr Abdus Salam remembered.
...achievement award, Dr. Abdus Salam was observed here on...nuclear scientist Dr. Abdus Salam was born in Jhang...career of research in theoretical physics he worked abroad...for young Pakistani physicists to visit the ICTP... |
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Dr. Abdus Salam: an intellectual giant. (Pakistani scientist and Nobel Prize...
...mentioned here that Salam was the only Nobel...along with a British physicist namely, Charles...white race. Dr. Salam missed the chance...elementary particles. Abdus Salam, son of Chaudhry...also did Ph.D in Theoretical ... |
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Loan From Tehran Saved Third World Nuclear Research Center
...International Center for Theoretical Physics, founded and run by Mohammed Abdus Salam, Pakistan's preeminent theoretical and nuclear physicist, who each year...interviews with director Salam and other nuclear ... |
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NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING PHYSICIST TO PRESENT 21ST KONOPINSKI MEMORIAL LECTURE.
...according to IU theoretical physicist Alan Kostelecky...the frontier of theoretical physics," Kostelecky...20th century, physicists were trying to...Weinberg, and Abdus Salam. But physicists...contributions ... |
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Indian-American physicist wins Dirac 2010.
...understanding of theoretical physics...contributions to theoretical physics include...awarded by the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics...the renowned physicist P A M Dirac...praised both ... |
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PHYSICIST SHARES PASSION FOR MENTORSHIP IN TENNECO LECTURE
...the daunting field of theoretical particle physics, UH...the new director of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), to...Quevedo is a well-known theoretical particle physicist with wide-ranging ... |
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