Books
MIT’s Walter Lewin takes the average person on a fascinating trip through physics and his adventures in the classroom.
July 3, 2011
Book review: ‘For the Love of Physics’
Science & Medicine
The Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to three scientists for their work on understanding the climate and on disorder in complex systems.
Oct. 5, 2021
Archives
Longing for the Harmonies: Themes and Variations From Modern Physics by Frank Wilczek and Betsy Devine (Norton: $19.95; 361 pages) Suppose all of the scientists in the world are brought together into one huge arena--the L.A.
Feb. 12, 1988
Science is finding the patterns that explain why we do the things we do.
May 23, 2004
Few things in this changing world are constant.
June 1, 2000
Author Used Sci-Fi Icon as Starting Point, and ‘Physics of Star Trek’ Took Off at Warp Speed
Jan. 16, 1997
THE PARTICLE GARDEN: Our Universe as Understood by Particle Physicists by Gordon Kane (Addison-Wesley/Helix Books: $22; 224 pp.).
April 23, 1995
Eight men and one woman--seven Americans and a Canadian--made a clean sweep for North America of this year’s Nobel Prizes in physics, chemistry and medicine (and literature), awarded Friday in Stockholm.
Dec. 13, 1993
Research: When others bailed out, Caltech professor stuck by string theory, now firmly in mainstream of physics.
Nov. 17, 1999