The Western Michigan University Department of Physics traces its history to 1904, when instruction began at what was then Western State Normal School. Physics was taught, along with chemistry, under ...

Prof. Emeritus Howard Stein, a renowned philosopher and historian of physics at the University of Chicago, died March 8 at his home in Hyde Park. He was 95. A trained philosopher and mathematician, ...

Martin Jesse Klein, a historian of modern physics and former senior editor of “The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein,” passed away on March 28. He was 84 years old. At Yale, Klein was the Eugene ...

The first annual Abraham Pais Award for the History of Physics was presented to Martin J. Klein, Eugene Higgins Professor Emeritus of Physics and the History of Science at Yale University, in ...

Ever since Isaac Newton and the falling apple, surprises have often pushed physics forward. Many truths about the universe we live in and the particles that make up ourselves and the world around us, ...

This article is an extended version of the article “The double-slit experiment” that appeared in the September 2002 issue of Physics World (p15). It has been further extended to include three letters ...

In 1887, one of the most important experiments in the history of physics took place. American scientists Michelson and Morley ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about physics, science, academia, and pop culture. In December, 1930, a group of physicists convened a meeting in Tübingen ...

In 1915, Albert Einstein, with a little help from his friends, developed a theory of gravity that overturned what we’d thought were the very foundations of physical reality. The idea that the space ...

Postage stamps are not just tokens we use to send letters – they also form part of our social history. Ian Briggs looks at how developments in nuclear physics have been depicted in postage stamps ...

Symmetry writer Mike Perricone presents his annual compilation of new popular science books related to particle physics and astrophysics. The array of particle physics and astrophysics books Symmetry ...