21.   It is not, one physics professor says, but the mistaken definition for the second full moon of the month is embedded in popular culture.

22.   It is the brainchild of S.B. Woo, a physics professor at the University of Delaware who is a former Democratic lieutenant governor in that small mid-Atlantic state.

23.   It was developed by Daniel Branton, a professor of cell biology, and Jene Golovchenko, a physics professor, both at Harvard.

24.   It was founded as a language conversion site by a physics professor in California and grew into an all-encompassing travel site.

25.   MIT physics professor Henry Kendall, a Nobel laureate and chairman of the Union of Concerned Scientists, strongly supports the laser-and-supercomputer testing option.

26.   One of the few major-league academics publicly defending Mack is David Pritchard, a physics professor and UFO abduction researcher at MIT.

27.   Physics professor Ullrich Herrmann has often used his position to criticize athletic department spending and results.

28.   Physics professor Xi-Cheng Zhang has found that high-intensity light beams called terahertz waves can be used to sense anthrax spores inside a sealed envelope.

29.   Pierce, a former physics professor, heads a neo-Nazi group called the National Alliance in Hillsboro, W.Va.

30.   Scientist Adrian Melott, a physics professor and researcher at the University of Kansas, says we panic ourselves in this info-laden culture.