WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek, considered one of the world’s most eminent theoretical physicists and a pioneer in modern quantum theory, will join Purdue University President ...
In modern physics, we have learned to formulate the laws for the behavior of matter, and for the large-scale organization of matter, in terms of standard models incorporating a very few parameters. We ...
In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called "Is the end in sight for theoretical physics?" Forty-five years later, ...
Good morning, Ladies and Gentlemen, I congratulate the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics on its 50th anniversary. In his Nobel Lecture in December 1979, Abdus Salam said: ...
S. James Gates, Jr., a theoretical physicist from the University of Maryland, College Park, will be the featured speaker at Montana Tech’s Public Lecture Series at 4 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 5, in the ...
Physicists are making the universe more complicated than it needs to be, says eminent theorist Neil Turok, director of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Ontario. Scientists are faced ...
Kip S. Thorne, Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Emeritus at the California Institute of Technology, gave the 51 st George Gamow Memorial Lecture at CU Boulder on the topic of, “Probing the ...
DURING the last twenty years of his tenure of the chair of theoretical physics at Leyden, Prof. Lorentz delivered short courses of lectures analysing—in the incomparable manner we have learnt to ...
A billionaire Internet mogul has awarded a record US$27 million to nine physicists for their work on fundamental theory. Yuri Milner, who has made his fortune investing in social-media companies, ...