Physics
Martin L. Perl – Biographical
Biographical
Good Schools, Books, a Love of Mechanics, and You Must Earn a LivingAbout 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia. As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism. My parents grew up in poor areas of New York…
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John C. Mather – Interview
Interview
Nobel Prize Talks: John C. Mather Released 2014-05-22 Is there life on Mars? NASA researcher John Mather, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2006 for mapping the traces of the first light emitted by the young universe, believes that where there’s water, there’s likely to be life. And he thinks that the chances of finding…
moreGeorge F. Smoot – Interview
Interview
Nobel Prize Talks: George F. Smoot Released 2014-05-09 How big is the universe? And how do you stay grounded when working in the mind-bending field of cosmology? These are questions for George Smoot, awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics for his explorations of the remnants of the first light emitted by the expanding universe.…
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