It was designed in 1861 with the help of a Harvard physicist who pledged to make the building acoustically perfect (he succeeded).

Richard Wilson, a Harvard physicist who is an expert in risk analysis, puts the number at one million.

Dr. Carter, the Harvard physicist, said the definitional issue was important even though the Soviet laser clearly had no military value.

From a Harvard physicist, advanced cosmological theories for lay folk who are a bit baffled by the idea of 10 dimensions.

"Black holes are still fundamentally enigmatic objects," said Dr. Andrew Strominger, a Harvard physicist, who attended.

When Harvard physicists studied the causes of Chernobyl, they pinned the blame, above all, on the "secrecy that was endemic in the Soviet Union."

His narrator (a Harvard physicist recovering from a nervous breakdown) keeps it in a box that he is about to open as the story ends.

Although he seems to have the hang of it pretty well, a Harvard physicist named Thomas McMahon spent some time relearning this process on a computer.

He also worked with Dr. N. Bloembergen, a Harvard physicist, in research involving lasers and nonlinear optics.

Otherwise, said Dr. Strominger, the Harvard physicist, space-time would be unstable - "you could have perpetual motion."