Claims regarding bubble fusion, in which a table-top apparatus is reported as producing small-scale fusion in a liquid undergoing acoustic cavitation are published.
John B. Fenn (Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA) and Koichi Tanaka (Shimadzu Corp., Kyoto, Japan) "for their development of soft desorption ionisation methods for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules"
Raymond Davis Jr. (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA) and Masatoshi Koshiba (International Center for Elementary Particle Physics, University of Tokyo, Japan) "for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos"
Riccardo Giacconi (Associated Universities Inc., Washington DC, USA) "for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, which have led to the discovery of cosmic X-ray sources"
She is a member of the Eberly College of Science Campaign Committee and serves on the Science B.S./M.B.A. advisory panel.
The Outstanding Science Alumni Award was established by the Board of Directors in 1996 to recognize and reward outstanding science alumni for their success as leaders in science and for the impact they have had and will continue to have on society and their professions.
The Eberly College of Science established this new lecture series to recognize the generous philanthropic support of the Eberly family of Uniontown, Pennsylvania, and to raise awareness of timely science topics and issues.
Second, science is posing hard questions of moral judgement and of practical concern, which, if addressed in the wrong way, can lead to prejudice against science, which I believe would be profoundly damaging.
Science is a central part, not a separate part, of our common culture, together with art, history, the social sciences and the humanities.
Science is also at the heart of our programme to develop the potential of the very brightest pupils through the Academy for Gifted and Talented pupils at Warwick University, which will open next year.
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