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Turley
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Extreme Ultra Violet
Trying to find good materials to explore and capture XUV with. Can use XUV to look inside suns, black holes, microsopy |
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Stephens
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Astronomy
Exploring brown dwarf formation and evolution. Use it to understand how extra solar planets might be like, and what planetary evolution might be. |
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Merrell
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Physics Education
It is interesting and still very Physics oriented. There are only about 3 classes that differ from a true physics major. |
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Davis
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Carbon Nano-tubes
Very strong, extremely thin and straight tubes. Have problems with them not being dense enough, and so they are trying to strengthen it. |
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Spencer
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Plasma Physics
All we can see is plasma, so we can use more knowledge to explore space. Can be used to help build new smaller chips. |
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Gee
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Acoustics
Improving building sound structures. Reduce intensity changes. |
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Durfee
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Matterwave Interferometry
Hopes to show that photons have mass. Improve Atomic clocks. See the gravito-magnetic force. |
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Hirschmann
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Black Holes
Looking for naked singularities. Black Holes without event horizons. |
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Chesnel
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Condensed Matter
Form magnetic lines. Make better magnets? |
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Peatross
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Laser
Youngest son: Logan Arthur Compton: Nobel Prize in 1927 Traps particles in lasers. Have two lasers hit to cancel out some of the extra wavelengths. |
