That expansion, as every high-school physicist will surely remember, causes the droplets to cool.
The idea that mass is constant is drilled into every budding high-school physicist.
Dr. Peter Jarvis, physicist, school of mathematics and physics, University of Tasmania, Australia.
Notable alumni of the school include Nobel Prize-winning physicist Robert Andrews Millikan, educator Junius L. Meriam, and ethnologist Frances Densmore.
Both the valedictorian and salutatorian were women, and alumnae include the first woman to be dean of a law school and a physicist elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
"Just as creationists attempt to ban the theory of evolution from the school books," said a physicist, Peter Heller, in a Web posting that challenged the national nuclear orthodoxy, "it almost seems as if every factual and neutral explanation in Germany is now in the process of being deleted" from the nuclear debate.
It is telling, he said, that Dr. David Baltimore, a Nobel-prize winning biologist, is now president of the California Institute of Technology, a school historically run by physicists.
And it has united the science community, from primary school teachers to particle physicists, in joyous enthusiasm; mostly because they hope its price, size, software and sturdiness (you can shove it in your pocket without damaging it, supposedly) will make it appeal to kids, and thus lead children into computer programming.
Physicists, primary school teachers, chemists follow and the pre-primary school teachers are in the last position.
In Soviet days, many scientists were lured to these remote facilities with promises of decent pay, housing, and schools, says Evgeny Avrorin, a physicist who will serve 2 years as VNIITF director following the suicide in October of its previous director, Vladimir Nechai.
Born in Newcastle upon Tyne, Higgs was inspired at school by the work of physicist Paul Dirac, who helped lay the foundations of quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter.
