During Diggs's early days in physics, members of the physics department must have wondered whether they had done the right thing, because as Diggs took the final exam of his first physics course, he had a failing average.
Peter Higgs is a Professor at Edinburgh University, and members of the physics department there also work on ATLAS, so this was a bit like bringing coals to Newcastle.
Voters appear to have returned both members of the "physics caucus" to Congress--but just barely.
The posting of preprints on the Internet by scientists, which began in earnest with members of the physics community, is now expanding rapidly in the information technologies, and some posting of these e-prints is now occurring in most of the sciences.
"She was incredibly passionate about every sort of science," said Joe O'Rourke, a fellow astronomy and physics major and member of the physics team.
He is also an adjunct faculty member of the physics department at the Cooper Union in New York.
A member of the physics department played an anchor role and became our "Trojan horse", navigating us around the complexities of a university with myriad levels of activity.
Yesterday afternoon, I received a call on my cellphone from a member of the physics faculty, who had a lead on an apartment for me.
As a graduate student in theoretical physics at U.C. San Diego in the nineties, he was briefed on a recent string-theory development called the Maldacena conjecture by a young member of the physics department.
She worked (1995 97) as a research associate at JILA, a research institution jointly operated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology NISTT) and the University of Colorado Boulder, and thereafter she became a NIST physicist at JILA while also serving as a member of the physics faculty at the University of Colorado Boulder.
