Natural philosophy has always been a key part of science, providing a framework for hypotheses and conclusions, especially when experimentation bumps up against the walls of physics and technology.

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Most of the big breakthroughs in math, physics and computer technology are made by the obnoxiously young.

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He once told me that when he entered Princeton in 1969, man had landed on the moon, inspiring him to pursue physics and space technology.

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This, after all, is a technology of facts and physics, not visions and passions.

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The Awards jury was chaired by Professor Ahmed Zewail, winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and Linus Pauling Chair Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics, California Institute of Technology.

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"We are delighted that the TMT project has now been granted a Conservation District Use Permit, " said Edward Stone, the Morrisroe Professor of Physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and vice chair of the TMT board.

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The man behind the technology is Immerz CEO and president Shahriar Afshar, a physics researcher infamous in academic circles for a controversial experiment he conducted on Harvard in quantum mechanics.

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D. in physics by age 23, studied with Stephen Hawking, trained as a French chef and served as chief technology officer at Microsoft, where he got rich enough to pursue eccentric hobbies like hunting for dinosaur bones.

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The basic technology comes from Hendrik Monkhorst of the University of Florida and Norman Rostoker, a professor emeritus of physics and astronomy at University California Irvine that has been working in plasma physics for years.

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