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According to physicist Philip Warren Anderson, the use of the term "condensed matter" to designate a field of study was coined by him and Volker Heine, when they changed the name of their group at the Cavendish Laboratories, Cambridge, from Solid state theory to Theory of Condensed Matter in 1967, [10] as they felt it better included their interest in liquids, nuclear matter, and so on.
George Ogurek Zimmerman, (October 20, 1935 – May 6, 2019) was a Polish-born American scientist, researcher, inventor, professor of physics and physics department chair at Boston University. Zimmerman achieved his PhD in solid state physics in 1963 at Yale University and came to Boston University in the fall of 1963.
1967 – Volker Heine coins the term ''condensed matter''. [1] 1967 – Negative-index materials are first described theoretically by Victor Veselago. [81] 1970 – French scientist Madeleine Veyssié , coins the term soft matter (French: matière molle). [82] 1971: The spin Hall effect is predicted by Mikhail I. Dyakonov and Vladimir I. Perel.
The incidents come after the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security said there is ‘no evidence’ the drone sightings pose a national security threat
A line of thunderstorms moved through the southeastern U.S. this weekend with heavy rain and life-threatening flash flooding across the Ohio Valley and Appalachians and severe weather across the ...
The original occupant of the channel 7 allocation in Boston was WNAC-TV, which commenced operations on June 21, 1948, as Boston's second commercial station.Originally a CBS affiliate, the station switched to ABC in 1961, but rejoined CBS in 1972.
The first settlement at Boston was made in 1820. [3] A sawmill was built at Boston in about 1821. [3] An early variant name was Boston Mills. [4] A post office called Boston was established in 1825, and remained in operation until 1957. [5] In 1974, a significant portion of the area near Boston was added to what would become Cuyahoga Valley ...
Leonard first came to Boston TV in May 1977 at Channel 7, then known as WNAC-TV. For the first few years, he was a staff meteorologist. By the time the station was sold to New England Television and became WNEV-TV in 1982 (the same ownership would rename it again to WHDH in 1990), Leonard became chief meteorologist, the role he would hold there ...