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Tag Archives: physics
Barth Netterfield on exploring the universe
February 17, 2010
Barth Netterfield is a professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Toronto and his research focuses on the construction and use of balloon borne telescopes.
Jun Ye
February 2, 2009
Jun Ye is currently working in the fields of ultrasensitive laser spectroscopy, optical frequency metrology, and quantum optics using cold atoms.
Mark Chen
February 2, 2009
Mark is helping to make Canada a world leader in the quest for dark matter.
David Schurig
January 12, 2009
David Schurig is designing invisibility cloaks and other interesting devices using the transformation method and implementing them with metamaterials.
Anthony Leggett
January 8, 2009
Sir Anthony J. Leggett is pioneering exploration into what happens when the bizarre laws of quantum physics are “pushed up” from the atomic level toward everyday life.
Lawrence Krauss
January 8, 2009
The author of 7 popular books including the international bestseller, The Physics of Star Trek, Krauss is one of the few well known scientists today described by such magazines as ‘Scientific American’ as a public intellectual.
