Michael Riordan has spent decades ruminating on the history of physics, including events he participated in himself. The American Physical Society announced today that they will award physicist and ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
Introduction / Jed Z. Buchwald and Robert Fox -- pt. I. Physics and the new science. Was there a scientific revolution? / John L. Heilbron ; Galileo's mechanics of natural motion and projectiles / N.M ...
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, ...
A couple of pieces on the relationship between fiction and history caught my eye this morning. First, there’s Christopher Scalia responding to Peggy Noonan’s trouncing of The Crown’s historical ...
Why do we think of STEM, history and the arts as separate categories, when each informs and enriches the other? A statue of scientist Joseph Henry stands in Academy Park in Albany. As I walked past a ...
In the current landscape of higher education, familiar challenges like disengaged students, faculty burnout, and high staff turnover can frequently dominate discussions. Often seen as separate issues, ...
This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American A few years ago, celebrated British physicist ...
In 1988, Paula Findlen, a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, was visiting the archives of the University of Bologna in Italy when she discovered a book about the early women ...
Science history is filled with brilliant minds whose contributions have gone largely unrecognized or deliberately overlooked. While some eventually received their due recognition, others remain hidden ...
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