Physics@MIT; 2001 Annual, Number 14: An Annual Publication for members and friends of the MIT Physics community.
Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Physics, 2001. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. 95, [1] pages. Illustrations (some in color). Cover has some wear and soiling. Mailing label on rear cover. The MIT Physics Department is one of the best places in the world for research and education in physics, ranked the number one physics department since 2002 by US News & World Report. In recent years, the Department has produced the largest numbers of undergraduate and doctoral degrees in physics of any university in the US. Research is organized into four primary research areas, pushing back the frontiers of human understanding of space and time and of matter and energy in all its forms, from the subatomic to the cosmological and from the elementary to the complex. Four Nobel Prizes awarded to faculty since 1990, and four alumni have won Nobel Prizes since 1998. The Department of Physics investigates the nature of universe in its most extreme conditions in order to discover new and exciting phenomena. MIT Physics researchers study the largest things in the universe. They study the smallest things in the universe: elementary particles or even the strings that may be the substructure of these particles. They study the hottest things in the universe. They study the coldest things in the universe. They study the most complicated things too: unusual materials like high temperature superconductors and those that are important in biology. By pushing the limits, MIT physicists have the chance to observe new general principles and to test theories of the structure and behavior of matter and energy. Francis Eugene Low (October 27, 1921 – February 16, 2007) was an American theoretical physicist. He was an Institute Professor at MIT, and served as provost there from 1980 to 1985. He was a member of the influential JASON Defense Advisory Group. During the Second World War, Low worked on the Manhattan Project. He was based at what is now the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, working on the mathematics of uranium enrichment. He later entered the United States Army and served in the 10th Mountain Division. After the war, Low completed his studies at Columbia University, earning a Ph.D. in Physics in 1950. He then worked at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, before taking up a faculty position at the University of Illinois. Low joined the MIT physics faculty in 1957. He was director of MIT's Center for Theoretical Physics and the Laboratory for Nuclear Science. In 1980, Low was appointed provost of MIT. During his five-year tenure, he was instrumental in bringing the Whitehead Institute to MIT, and expanded humanities education at the Institute. Low retired from MIT in 1991, but continued to teach for another few years. His text Classical Field Theory: Electromagnetism and Gravitation was published in 1997. Condition: Good.
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