Ettore Majorana vanished in March 1938. According to Frank Close in Destroyer of Worlds, the 31-year-old Sicilian physicist ...

OUR WORST NATIONAL STAIN also gave rise to our most inspiring mass movement: the civil rights struggle. We were challenged to ...

Andre Geim took British citizenship to accept a knighthood. He has just learned he can no longer be a citizen of the ...

A former “D” student from Norway, he made his mark at G.E.’s Research Lab in the U.S., in part by confirming a pivotal theory ...

This progress means that, for the first time, complicated astrophysical events like shocks and turbulence can be studied in a ...

An attosecond—or 0.000000000000000001 second—is no time at all for a person. That is not so for electrons, atoms and ...

The couple’s work on radioactivity won them a share of the Nobel prize in physics in 1903, alongside Becquerel, making Marie the first woman to win a Nobel prize.

This year's Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to three US pharmacologists for their discovery that the unstable gas, nitric oxide (NO), is an essential regulator of vasodilation.

Three researchers behind LIGO’s discovery were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2017 for their role in the detection of gravitational waves: physicists Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish, and Kip ...

A Ukrainian lawmaker who called for President Donald Trump to receive a Nobel Peace Prize has withdrawn his nomination.

He began his contributions in atomic physics as a doctoral student at Harvard University in the late 1950s under physicist and future Nobel laureate Norman F. Ramsey.

Not only Bloch but Enrico Fermi, Emilio Segre, Otto Stern, and Victor Franz Hess were Nobel laureates whose work merited inclusion in a national collection. Cardiologist Bruno Kisch, Rudolph Schindler ...