The American Physical Society awarded former UC Santa Cruz physicist Michael Riordan on October 15 with its Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics, citing his “important contributions to the ...

In the research field of the history and philosophy of physics, Professor Emeritus Allan Franklin studies the long-term impacts of physics discoveries on the scientific community and the greater ...

In December, 1930, a group of physicists convened a meeting in Tübingen, Germany to discuss the latest developments in nuclear physics. A logical person to have at such a meeting would've been ...

In the 1960s, a group of physicists and historians began a massive project meant to catalogue and record the history of quantum physics. It was called Sources for History of Quantum Physics (SHQP). As ...

Solid State Insurrection: How the Science of Substance Made American Physics Matter Joseph D. Martin University of Pittsburgh Press (2018) What is “physics”? From the birth of the nuclear age at the ...

Join us for an insightful webinar based on Women and Physics (Second Edition), where we will explore the historical journey, challenges, and achievements of women in the field of physics, with a focus ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about physics, science, academia, and pop culture. As 2019 winds down, we’re seeing a lot of stories offering wrap-ups of ...

For more than two decades, amateur photographer Dale Carter has documented the physicists who come to the Black Hills for their research. Photography is sometimes thought of as one part skill and one ...

In the early years of computational physics, starting during the Second World War, the discipline and its practitioners did not yet have a name. Iulia Georgescu tells the story of these forgotten ...