• George H. Trilling (18 September 1930 – 30 April 2020) was a Polish-born American particle physicist. He was co-discoverer of the J/ψ meson which evinced...
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  • Review. Lionel Mordecai Trilling was born in Queens, New York, the son of Fannie (née Cohen), who was from London, and David Trilling, a tailor from Bialystok...
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  • George E. Pake (April 1, 1924 – March 4, 2004) was a physicist and research executive primarily known for helping found Xerox PARC. Pake was raised in...
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  • The voiced alveolar trill is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents...
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    of eighth grade. He took private music lessons by famous French flutist Georges Barrère. During his final year of school, Oppenheimer became interested...
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    Sessler (1998) Jerome Isaac Friedman (1999) James S. Langer (2000) 2001– George Trilling (2001) William F. Brinkman (2002) Myriam Sarachik (2003) Helen Quinn...
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    Sessler (1998) Jerome Isaac Friedman (1999) James S. Langer (2000) 2001– George Trilling (2001) William F. Brinkman (2002) Myriam Sarachik (2003) Helen Quinn...
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    February 2021, it was reported that Triller Fight Club had won a purse bid to promote the fight between Teófimo López and George Kambosos to defend López's unified...
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    Sessler (1998) Jerome Isaac Friedman (1999) James S. Langer (2000) 2001– George Trilling (2001) William F. Brinkman (2002) Myriam Sarachik (2003) Helen Quinn...
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    recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physics to sign a letter addressed to President George W. Bush in May 2008, urging him to "reverse the damage done to basic science...
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    George Eugene Uhlenbeck (December 6, 1900 – October 31, 1988) was a Dutch-American theoretical physicist, known for his significant contributions to quantum...
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    Sessler (1998) Jerome Isaac Friedman (1999) James S. Langer (2000) 2001– George Trilling (2001) William F. Brinkman (2002) Myriam Sarachik (2003) Helen Quinn...
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  • Sessler (1998) Jerome Isaac Friedman (1999) James S. Langer (2000) 2001– George Trilling (2001) William F. Brinkman (2002) Myriam Sarachik (2003) Helen Quinn...
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    Sessler (1998) Jerome Isaac Friedman (1999) James S. Langer (2000) 2001– George Trilling (2001) William F. Brinkman (2002) Myriam Sarachik (2003) Helen Quinn...
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    Sessler (1998) Jerome Isaac Friedman (1999) James S. Langer (2000) 2001– George Trilling (2001) William F. Brinkman (2002) Myriam Sarachik (2003) Helen Quinn...
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    an annual salary of $3,000. The dean of Columbia's physics department, George B. Pegram, was looking for a theoretical physicist to teach statistical...
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    Sessler (1998) Jerome Isaac Friedman (1999) James S. Langer (2000) 2001– George Trilling (2001) William F. Brinkman (2002) Myriam Sarachik (2003) Helen Quinn...
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    Sessler (1998) Jerome Isaac Friedman (1999) James S. Langer (2000) 2001– George Trilling (2001) William F. Brinkman (2002) Myriam Sarachik (2003) Helen Quinn...
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    Sessler (1998) Jerome Isaac Friedman (1999) James S. Langer (2000) 2001– George Trilling (2001) William F. Brinkman (2002) Myriam Sarachik (2003) Helen Quinn...
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    Sessler (1998) Jerome Isaac Friedman (1999) James S. Langer (2000) 2001– George Trilling (2001) William F. Brinkman (2002) Myriam Sarachik (2003) Helen Quinn...
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    classmates included Robert R. Wilson, who like others secretly admired Wu, and George Volkoff; her closest friends included post-doctoral student Margaret Lewis...
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    Theoretical Physics began in Washington, D.C. under the joint auspices of George Washington University and the Carnegie Institution of Washington. There...
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    counts too. On March 17, 1938, Bethe attended the Carnegie Institute and George Washington University's fourth annual Washington Conference of Theoretical...
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    Division of Engineering and Applied Physics until 1957. In 1961/62 he was George Eastman Visiting Professor at University of Oxford and held a professorship...
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  • Sessler (1998) Jerome Isaac Friedman (1999) James S. Langer (2000) 2001– George Trilling (2001) William F. Brinkman (2002) Myriam Sarachik (2003) Helen Quinn...
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    at an American Physical Society meeting. They had four children, twins George Jacob Bloch and Daniel Arthur Bloch (born January 15, 1941), son Frank Samuel...
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    radiation (which resulted in the award of the 2006 Nobel Prize, shared by George Smoot and John Mather). Alvarez proposed muon tomography in 1965 to search...
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  • Oppenheimer's clearance on June 29, 1954. Smyth's rationale for what McGeorge Bundy has called his "lonely but powerful dissent" was that the evidence...
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    Motion of the Earth", Rev. Mod. Phys., V. 5, N. 3, pp. 203–242 (Jul 1933). George Joos & Dayton C. Miller, "Note on the Repetition of the Michelson-Morley...
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  • Sessler (1998) Jerome Isaac Friedman (1999) James S. Langer (2000) 2001– George Trilling (2001) William F. Brinkman (2002) Myriam Sarachik (2003) Helen Quinn...
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