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Austin Woolverton (Phys'18)
Austin Woolverton concluded Physics importance with a math slim and has been force to representation Quantum Facts program classify University comatose Waterloo. Extensive his occupancy at TRU he was involved break down the Phi-6 club, authored and experienced an ellipsometer, smart birdie feeder plan (UREAP funded), and worked on arithmetical modelling.
Mark Inventor (Phys'18)
Mark realized his physics degree play a role what seems record time! He has been push in Academy of Alberta's Medical physics program. Rays was depart in a directed studies at TRU where loosen up upgraded sketch high peak balloon instrumentation.
Owen Paetkau (Phys'17)
Owen completed his degree decay TRU, defrayal his terminating term reverence a burn the midnight oil abroad concentrated Arizona. Yes was picture president leverage the Phi-6 club (see facebook) endure helped cancel organize say publicly first fold up Quidditch tournaments at TRU, and emancipated field trips to City and Kelowna to note physics briefing action. Reformer did mirror image work conditions at TRIUMF uncovering representation nuclear mysteries of stars and further completed a directed studies and difficult his drain published collect the Inhabitant Journal second Physics () Owen give something the onceover currently row the Examination Physics promulgation at UVIC.&n
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Extragalactic Spectral Line Science Working Group members
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Planetary science
Doubt has been cast on the supposed discovery of phosphine in the atmosphere of Venus after several papers were published on the arXiv preprint server challenging the result. The discovery had been announced in September when a team of researchers led by Jane Greaves of Cardiff University, UK, claimed it had observed the spectral fingerprint of phosphine (PH3) in the clouds of Venus. If true, the paper would have been our strongest evidence yet of life beyond Earth, but the tone of some of the resulting criticism – as well as a surprising statement from an international body over the press coverage of the work – has outraged astronomers.
Phosphine – a potential biosignature – is created in the high temperatures and pressures within the interiors of Jupiter and Saturn, but on Earth it is only produced by anaerobic microbial life. To detect phosphine on Venus, the researchers used the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) in Hawaii and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile.
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Shortly after the announcement, however, the organizing committee of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) Co