Chien-Shiung Wu, Trailblazing Nuclear Physicist, Honored with a Stamp
A groundbreaking Chinese-American woman physicist, ignored for the Nobel Prize, gets a US postage stamp.
Posts tagged: Physics
Peter Higgs, Nobel Winner: The Who2 Biography
Peter Higgs, the brain behind the Higgs Boson, has won the Nobel Prize in Physics.
The Higgs Boson Flow Chart
Ask yourself: are you confusing it with candy?
A Biography of Peter Higgs, the Higgs Boson Guy
Finding the Higgs boson is the biggest news in physics in a quarter century, they say. Who is this Higgs guy? Find out in our biography.
Marie Curie Finger Puppet Biography
A fact-filled video about “superhero” Marie Curie, with finger puppets.
Two Einstein Photos For Einstein’s Birthday
Try not to think of Einstein and just enjoy the photographs.
Stephen Hawking at 70
Computer chip maker Intel said on the occasion of Stephen Hawking’s 70th birthday that they were going to try to help him regain the power of speech.
Throwing Einstein on the Bonfire?
Neutrinos have been measured going faster than the speed of light. (Maybe.) Does that mean sweet old Uncle Albert Einstein was wrong about everything?
Erwin Schrodinger +50 Years
Happy 50th deathday to you, genius physicist Erwin Schrödinger. You died on this day in 1961.
Stephen Hawking: God Wasn’t Necessarily Necessary
Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than
nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist. It is not necessary to
invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going.Physicist Stephen Hawking speaks his mind on Why God Did Not Create the Universe.(“Blue touch paper” is an old-fashioned fuse for fireworks.)