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The William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute is a research institute in the University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering.FTPI was largely the work of physics Professor Emeritus, Stephen Gasiorowicz and university alumnus and Twin Cities real-estate developer William I. Fine. [1] The institute officially came into existence in January 1987. [2]
The University of Minnesota (officially the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities) is a public land-grant research university in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. The Twin Cities campus comprises locations in Minneapolis and Falcon Heights, a suburb of St. Paul, approximately 3 mi (4.8 km) apart.
Thomas Friedman. Carl Dennis, Pulitzer Prize winner in 2002 for Poetry; Thomas Friedman, Pulitzer Prize winner in 1983 and 1988 for International Reporting and 2002 for Commentary; studied at the University of Minnesota from 1971 to 1973 before transferring to Brandeis University
From 2006 to 2008 he was vice-chair and then chair of the Division of Condensed Matter Physics of the American Physical Society. From 1999 to 2005 he was an associate editor for the Reviews of Modern Physics. The University of Minnesota annually awards the Goldman Fellowship to a graduate student in the physics department.
Lawrence Harding Johnston (February 11, 1918 – December 4, 2011) was an American physicist, a young contributor to the Manhattan Project.He was the only man to witness all three atomic explosions in 1945: the Trinity nuclear test in New Mexico and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan.
Institutions. University of Minnesota. Alfred Otto Carl Nier (May 28, 1911 – May 16, 1994) was an American physicist who pioneered the development of mass spectrometry. [1] He was the first to use mass spectrometry to isolate uranium-235 which was used to demonstrate that 235 U could undergo fission and developed the sector mass spectrometer ...
November 13, 1966 [3] The Lake Vermilion-Soudan Underground Mine State Park is a Minnesota state park at the site of the Soudan Underground Mine, on the south shore of Lake Vermilion, in the Vermilion Range (Minnesota). The mine is known as Minnesota's oldest, deepest, and richest iron mine. It formerly hosted the Soudan Underground Laboratory.
Roberta M. Humphreys is an American observational stellar astrophysicist. She is Professor Emerita at the University of Minnesota. Her work has included Galactic structure, observational stellar evolution, stellar populations, and large databases. She is best known for her research on massive stars in the Milky Way and in nearby resolved galaxies.