He studied physics and English at the College of Charleston, but dropped out his junior year to sail to the Bahamas.

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Rapid-prototyping machines have, for example, shortened the casting process for facial and cranial plates used in reconstructive surgery, says Robin Richards at the department of medical physics at University College, London.

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Dr Patricia Alireza will use her For Women In Science Fellowship to support her research at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London.

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Dr Sarah Bridle will use her For Women In Science Fellowship to support her research at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London.

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Dr Sarah Bridle Dr Sarah Bridle will use her For Women In Science Fellowship to support her research at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London.

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Patricia Alireza - FWIS09 Dr Patricia Alireza will use her For Women In Science Fellowship to support her research at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London.

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My friend Seitaro in Tokyo, who studied nuclear physics in college, faults the Japanese government for stoking panic over the breakdowns at the Fukushima reactors Friday and Saturday by failing to adequately explain what was going on.

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At college he fell madly in love with the only woman in his physics class, a dark and intense Serbian named Mileva Maric.

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Checque was a four-year honors student, said his physics teacher Doug Knipple, but rather than go to college, he chose to go straight into the Navy.

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