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What is needed, Philip Morrison writes in The Cornell Daily Sun ( October 26 ) is a discontinuity.
The ten attendees were conference organiser Peter Pearman, Frank Drake, Philip Morrison, businessman and radio amateur Dana Atchley, chemist Melvin Calvin, astronomer Su-Shu Huang, neuroscientist John C. Lilly, inventor Barney Oliver, astronomer Carl Sagan and radio astronomer Otto Struve.
* 1915 – Philip Morrison, American scientist ( d. 2005 )
A 1959 paper by Philip Morrison and Giuseppe Cocconi first pointed out the possibility of searching the microwave spectrum, and proposed frequencies and a set of initial targets
The ten attendees were conference organiser Peter Pearman, Frank Drake, Philip Morrison, businessman and radio amateur Dana Atchley, chemist Melvin Calvin, astronomer Su-Shu Huang, neuroscientist John C. Lilly, inventor Barney Oliver, astronomer Carl Sagan and radio astronomer Otto Struve.
He is one of the pioneers of the modern field of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence with Giuseppe Cocconi, Philip Morrison, Iosif Shklovsky, and Carl Sagan.
Unsuccessful nominees ( in chronological order of earliest nomination ) include such established writers as V. S. Naipaul, Cees Nooteboom, José Saramago, Rohinton Mistry, Margaret Atwood, Don DeLillo, Ian McEwan, Haruki Murakami, Toni Morrison, Philip Roth, Peter Carey, Carlos Fuentes, Jonathan Franzen, John McGahern, Julian Barnes, J. M. Coetzee, Cormac McCarthy, Salman Rushdie, Barbara Kingsolver and Joyce Carol Oates.
The 1977 film has a number of changes from the prototype, including being entirely in color, moving the starting location from Miami to Chicago, introducing an additional two powers of ten at each extreme, a change in narrator from Judith Bronowski to Philip Morrison, and much improved graphics.
The viewpoint, accompanied by expository voiceover by Philip Morrison, then slowly zooms out to a view ten meters across ( or 10 < sup > 1 </ sup > m in scientific notation ).
* Powers of Ten: A Book About the Relative Size of Things in the Universe and the Effect of Adding another Zero ( 1982, 1994 ), by Philip and Phylis Morrison
In 1960, American physicist Philip Morrison and Italian physicist Giuseppe Cocconi proposed that extraterrestrial civilizations might be using radio signals for communication.
At one stage, the paper was threatened with closure following the publication of a Philip Zec cartoon ( captioned by William Connor ), which was misinterpreted by Winston Churchill and Herbert Morrison.
In doing so, the paper supported Herbert Morrison, who co-ordinated Labour's campaign, and recruited his former antagonist Philip Zec to reproduce, on the front page, a popular VE Day cartoon on the morning of the election, suggesting that Labour were the only party who could maintain peace in post-war Britain.
In 2008, The Nation editorial board was composed of Deepak Bhargava, Norman Birnbaum, Barbara Ehrenreich, Richard Falk, Frances FitzGerald, Eric Foner, Philip Green, Lani Guinier, Tom Hayden, Randall Kennedy, Tony Kushner, Elinor Langer, Deborah Meier, Toni Morrison, Victor Navasky, Pedro Antonio Noguera, Richard Parker, Michael Pertschuk, Elizabeth Pochoda, Marcus G. Raskin, Andrea Batista Schlesinger, David Weir, and Roger Wilkins.
During the American Civil War, many of Poestenkill's men served with the Union's forces ; twelve who died in action were Daniel M. Horton, Philip Amidon, Daniel Morrison, John Wagoner, George Bradt, Dexter Randall, William H. H. Wood, Martin Larabee, Willard Bailey, W. L. Robbins, George Simmons, and William H. Mason.
* September 19-Giuseppe Cocconi and Philip Morrison establish the scientific rationale for SETI with the publishing of their seminal paper " Searching for Interstellar Communications " in Nature.
She applied to Cornell University, where she studied physics under Philip Morrison, Richard Feynman, and Hans Bethe.
In “ Five Billion Vodka Bottles to the Moon ,” Shklovsky recalled his visit to Philip Morrison, who in 1959 had co-authored with Cornell University colleague Giuseppe Cocconi the paper in Nature magazine which marks the beginning of the modern search for extraterrestrial life, and their discussion of such issues.
Well-known recipients include Nobel laureates Robert Andrews Millikan, Edward M. Purcell, Richard Feynman, Isidor I. Rabi, Norman F. Ramsey, Hans Bethe, and Carl Wieman ; as well as Arnold Sommerfeld, George Uhlenbeck, Jerrold Zacharias, Philip Morrison, Melba Phillips, Victor Weisskopf, Gerald Holton, John A. Wheeler, Frank Oppenheimer, Robert Resnick, Carl Sagan, Freeman Dyson, Daniel Kleppner, and Lawrence Krauss, and Anthony French, David Hestenes, Robert Karplus, Robert Pohl, and Francis Sears.
* Philip Morrison – 1965
In 1959, Italian physicist Giuseppe Cocconi and American physicist Philip Morrison published " Searching for Interstellar Communications ", a paper proposing the 21 cm hydrogen line and the potential of microwaves in the search for interstellar communications.
The book was selected by Philip Morrison of Scientific American as one of the 100 most significant and influential books of science in the 20th century.
* Mediterranean desert, Christopher Wren, and industrial chemistry, Philip Morrison ( MIT ), Scientific American, 1987
* 1992 Philip Morrison

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* Philip Gardner ed., A. E. Housman: The Critical Heritage, a collection of reviews and essays on Housman s poetry ( London: Routledge 1992 )
* Michael Givel ( December 2005 ) Philip Morris FDA Gambit: Good for Public Health?
Classical studies were Making news – A study in the construction of reality by Gaye Tuchman ( 1978 ), Deciding what s news ( at CBS & NBC, Time and Newsweek ) by Herbert J. Gans ( 1979 ) in the U. S., and Putting ‘ reality together – BBC news by Philip Schlesinger ( 1987 ).
After the death of Emperor Henry VI, the majority of the princes of the Empire, situated in the south, elected Henry s brother, Philip, Duke of Swabia, king in March 1198, after receiving money and promises from Philip in exchange for their support.
In 1998, Cryo Interactive Entertainment released Philip K. Dick s Ubik, a tactical action / strategy videogame very loosely based on the book.
* Lem, Stanislaw, ( 1975 ) “ Science and Reality in Philip K. Dick s Ubik ”, A Multitude of Visions, ed.
After the death of Emperor Henry VI, who had recently also conquered the Kingdom of Sicily, the succession became disputed: as Henry's son Frederick was still a small child, the partisans of the Staufen dynasty elected Henry s brother, Philip, Duke of Swabia, king in March 1198, whereas the princes opposed to the Staufen dynasty elected Otto, Duke of Brunswick, of the House of Welf.
In the winter of 1559-1560, she arrived in Madrid to serve as a court painter and lady-in-waiting to the new queen, Elisabeth of Valois, Philip II s third wife, who was an amateur portraitist.
Anguissola soon gained Elisabeth's admiration and confidence and spent the following years painting many official portraits for the court, including Philip II s sister, Juana, and son, Don Carlos.
Yet despite the challenge, Anguissola's paintings of Elisabeth of Valois – and later of Anne of Austria, Philip II s fourth wife – were vibrant and full of life.
The word vanilla entered the English language in the 1754, when the botanist Philip Miller wrote about the genus in his Gardener s Dictionary.
In Street s office Morris formed an intimate and lifelong friendship with the senior clerk, Philip Webb, which had an important influence over the development taken by English domestic architecture during the next generation.
It is an international retaliation to Louis XIV s acceptance in 1700 of the Spanish crown on behalf of his grandson Philip of Anjou, who became Philip V, first Bourbon king of Spain.
In the end King Philip s War ( 1675 – 1676 ) was one of the bitterest events in his life as his efforts ended with the burning of Providence in March 1676, including his own house.
When Forster s cousin, Philip Whichelo, donated a portrait of Forster to the Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association ( GLHA ), Jim Herrick, the founder, quoted Forster's words: " The humanist has four leading characteristics-curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
Philip Neri s Congregazione dell ' Oratorio featured the singing of spiritual laude.
Bodley s collecting interests were varied ; according to the library's historian Ian Philip, as early as June 1603 he was attempting to source manuscripts from Turkey, and it was during “ the same year that the first Chinese book was acquired .” In 1610, Bodley made an agreement with the Stationers ' Company in London to put a copy of every book registered with them in the library.
* The Queen Adelaide Almshouses, also known as the King William Naval Asylum, St. John s Road, founded 1847 and built in 1848 to designs by Philip Hardwick at the request and expense of Queen Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, the widow of King William IV, to provide shelter for twelve widows or orphan daughters of naval officers.
When King Philip s War broke out in 1675, the plundering of one house was the only hostile act in Sagadahoc County until August, 1676, at which point three settlements were attacked and 53 people taken captive by Native Americans.
After Britten s own death in 1976, the artistic direction of the Festival was shared ; many world-class musicians joined the artistic team, including at various times Philip Ledger, Colin Graham, Steuart Bedford, Mstislav Rostropovich, Murray Perahia, Simon Rattle, John Shirley-Quirk and Oliver Knussen.
In the Social War ( 220 BC-217 BC ), the Hellenic League of Greek states was assembled at Philip V s instigation in Corinth.

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