Physicist Robert Serber stated in his memoirs that his nickname for the Nagasaki atomic bomb, " Fat Man ", was inspired by Greenstreet's " Kasper Gutman " character in The Maltese Falcon.

Physicist Robert L. Forward proposed using lumps of degenerate matter to locally compensate for the tidal forces near a neutron star.

Physicist Robert Oppenheimer frequently wore a Stetson cowboy hat which he modified into a wide-brimmed porkpie.

* Robert Woodrow Wilson ( Physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize )

* July – September: Physicist Robert Oppenheimer convenes a summer conference at the University of California, Berkeley to discuss the design of a fission bomb.

*" Physicist Disputes Speed of Gravity Claim "-American Physical Society News article, dated June 2003, describing criticism of the results

After World War II, three teenage boy rocket experimenters are recruited by the uncle of one of them, Dr. Cargraves, a Nobel Prize-winning Physicist who had worked on the Manhattan Project, to refit a conventionally-powered surplus " mail rocket ".

A different response, advocated by Physicist Max Tegmark in 2007, is that physics is so successfully described by mathematics because the physical world is completely mathematical, isomorphic to a mathematical structure, and that we are simply uncovering this bit by bit.

The first type are mainly concerned with preparing students for a career as a hospital Medical Physicist and research focuses on improving the practice of the profession.

In the May 1996 issue of Lingua Franca, in the article " A Physicist Experiments With Cultural Studies ", Sokal revealed that his " Transgressing the Boundaries " was a hoax and concluded that Social Text " felt comfortable publishing an article on quantum physics without bothering to consult anyone knowledgeable in the subject " because of its ideological proclivities and editorial bias.

*: Physicist turned historian Spencer R. Weart disagrees with this, saying, " It is not because of their advanced economic development — wealthy countries fight wars about as often as poor ones.

Physicist Albert Einstein is one of the most well known scientists of the 20th century.

Physicist Lee Smolin has written that if such cosmic rays which violate the GZK limit can be confirmed, and other possible explanations discounted, it " would be the most momentous discovery of the last hundred years — the first breakdown of the basic theories comprising the twentieth century's scientific revolution.

Physicist Conrad Longmire has given numerical values for a typical case of the E1 pulse produced by a second generation nuclear weapon such as those used in high altitude tests of Operation Fishbowl in 1962.

Physicist Aaron D. O ' Connell explains that understanding our universe, at such small scales as atoms, requires a different logic than day to day life.

Under such circumstances, it is necessary to take the negative square root for n. Physicist Victor Veselago proved that such substances can transmit light.

He was one of the first television cooks in the UK, hosting a black and white television show in 1969 entitled " The Physicist in the Kitchen " where he demonstrated techniques such as using a syringe to inject hot mince pies with brandy in order to avoid disturbing the crust.

* 1945 – Physicist Harry K. Daghlian, Jr. is fatally irradiated in a criticality accident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

* 1959 – Physicist Richard Feynman gives a speech entitled " There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom ", which is regarded as the birth of nanotechnology.

* 1946 – Physicist Louis Slotin is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Physicist Russell Targ coined the term remote viewing for use in some of his work at SRI in 1974.

Physicist John G. Cramer at the University of Washington is attempting to replicate one of these experiments and demonstrate whether or not it can produce superluminal communication.

* 1980 – Physicist Luis Alvarez, his son, geologist Walter Alvarez, and others propose that the impact of a large extraterrestrial object caused the extinction of the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous Period, about 65 million years ago.

Physicist Stephen Hawking, at a White House lecture in 1999, remarked that if there is no space colonization, population expansion continued unabated and the people of the Earth continued to use power at the rate they did then, then by the year 2600 people would be standing shoulder to shoulder and the Earth would glow red hot.

Physicist Albert Einstein, born in Germany, moved to Switzerland in 1895 at the age of 16 and became a Swiss citizen in 1901.

Hess took a leave of absence in 1921 and travelled to the United States, working at the US Radium Corporation, in New Jersey, and as Consulting Physicist for the US Bureau of Mines, in Washington DC.

Physicist and investigator Stanton Friedman was only able to substantially verify that Lazar took electronics courses in the late 1970s at Pierce Junior College in Los Angeles.

Physicist William Crookes claimed to have observed more than 50 occasions in which Home levitated, many of these at least five to seven feet above the floor, " in good light.

Prior to that time he was a Research Physicist with the U. S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service at the U. S. Water Conservation Laboratory in Phoenix, Arizona, where he worked since June 1967.

Another important improvement to the instrument was developed in the 1830s by the Dublin Physicist Humphrey Lloyd, who devised a way of attaching a magnetic needle at right-angles to the dip needle in order to measure the intensity of force ( by seeing the extent to which the right-angle needle deflected the dip-needle ).

You must submit a reference from your immediate supervisor and from at least two other individuals, including one from a currently certified Health Physicist.

Physicist Lei Xu and coworkers at the University of Chicago discovered that the splash due to the impact of a small drop of ethanol onto a dry solid surface could be suppressed by reducing the pressure below a specific threshold.

Charles Henry Bennett ( b. 1943 ) is a Physicist, Information theorist and IBM Fellow at IBM Research.

Physicist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

* Ettore Majorana, Italian Physicist, disappeared at sea in 1938.

Physicist Werner Meyer-Eppler had been inspired by Homer Dudley's 1948 invention of the Vocoder and began in 1951 to work with a device known as a Melochord, in conjunction with magnetic tape recorders, leading to a decade of working at the Cologne school specializing in " elektronische Musik " using magnetic tape recorders, sine wave generators and serial composition techniques.

From 1950, Goldstein was a Senior Physicist at Nuclear Development Corporation of America, where he directed theoretical research on the shielding of nuclear reactors and on neutron cross sections of interest for reactor design.

Lieb was a ( 1956 – 1957 ) Fulbright Fellow at Kyoto University, Japan and for some time worked as the Staff Theoretical Physicist for IBM.

At the end of World War I, he was appointed Chief Physicist of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ( NACA ) in charge of aerodynamic research at the station at Langley Field, which NACA had just established.

Physicist Lawrence Krauss has written The Physics of Star Trek, a book which postulates what phenomena might make some Star Trek technology feasible, while detailing the blunders the show has made.

Physicist Sean Carroll believes that conceiving of morality as a science could be a case of Scientific imperialism and insists that what is " good for conscious creatures " is not an adequate working definition of " moral ".

In 1986, following the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster, American Physicist Richard Feynmann, having served on the Rogers Commission estimated that the chance of an unsafe condition for a launch of the Shuttle was very roughly 1 %; more recently the historical per person-flight risk in orbital spaceflight has been calculated to be around 2 % or 4 %.

Physicist Issac Newton is considered to be one of the greatest scientists of all time.

Physicist Julius Edgar Lilienfeld filed a patent for a field-effect transistor ( FET ) in Canada in 1925, which was intended to be a solid-state replacement for the triode.

Physicist David Deutsch showed in 1991 that this model of computation could solve NP problems in polynomial time, and Scott Aaronson later extended this result to show that the model could also be used to solve PSPACE problems in polynomial time.

Apart from Captain Kirk, the episode introduced two other regular characters to the show: James Doohan, a friend of director James Goldstone, was cast as the Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott ( the name chosen after Doohan had tried various accents, and had decided that an engineer ought to be Scottish ) and George Takei was cast as Ship's Physicist Sulu, who would become the helmsman in the regular series.

Physicist Dr. James E. McDonald, for example, wrote to Hynek in 1970, castigating him for what McDonald saw as his lapses, and suggesting that, when evaluated by later generations, retired Marine Corps Major Donald E. Keyhoe would be regarded as a more objective, honest, and scientific ufologist.

Physicist Murray Gell-Mann for example acknowledged that " when biological evolution — based on largely random variation in genetic material and on natural selection — operates on the structure of actual organisms, it does so subject to the laws of physical science, which place crucial limitations on how living things can be constructed .".

Physicist Lionel Barrett is enlisted by an eccentric millionaire, Mr. Deutsch, to make an investigation into " survival after death " in " the one place where it has yet to be refuted ".