The Curious Wavefunction

Simple but neat atypical calculation of energy released in fission (from Glasstone and Sesonske, “Nuclear Reactor Engineering”). It’s a nice...

  In Niels Bohr's original 1913 formulation of the quantum atom, the Bohr radius r was proportional to n^2, n being the principal quantu...

In the history of the Manhattan Project, Los Alamos has always been the star, and Hanford and Oak Ridge where plutonium and uranium respecti...

Ernest Rutherford was the consummate master of experiment, disdaining theoreticians for playing around with their symbols while he and his f...

I was quite saddened to hear about the passing of Steven Weinberg, perhaps the dominant living figure from the golden age of particle physic...

This is from Jagdish Mehra and Helmut Rechenberg's monumental "The Historical Development of Quantum Mechanics, Vol. 6, Part 2...

David Kaiser is a remarkable man. He has two PhDs from Harvard, one in physics and one in the history of science, and is a professor in t...

That's physicist Albert Michelson, at the University of Chicago in 1894, saying that fundamental physics was essentially finished. In...

Leading physicists discuss their field's most pressing problems at Shelter Island in April 1947; including, among others, Julia...