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Elihu Boldt
15 July 1931 - 12 September 2008
Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, MD

Brian Pippard
07 September 1920 - 21 September 2008
Cambridge University
Cambridge, UK

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In the Magazine November 2009

electronic and protonic vortices

Materials in extreme environments

The study of materials under harsh conditions is essential to meet a range of energy challenges—from creating better turbines, reactors, and batteries to developing future energy systems in dense plasmas

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Whale

Human-generated sound and marine mammals

Loud anthropogenic noises can alter the behavior of whales and other marine mammals, sometimes with fatal consequences

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Paul Dirac in 1927 - Courtesy of Florida State University, Paul A. M. Dirac Collection

Paul Dirac, a man apart

Dirac practiced theoretical physics for almost 60 years with a unique style: a sometimes baffling combination of intuition, imagination, rectilinear logic, and steam-hammer mathematical power

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King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)

International research university opens in Saudi Arabia

The well-funded, strategically executed yet isolated experiment could fly or flop

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Ski moguls

The surprising motion of ski moguls

Regularly spaced bumps that arise on ski slopes defy intuition by migrating uphill, even though skiers and snow move downhill

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