The Curious Wavefunction

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

I have watched "Contact" several times and was watching it again the other day. Carl Sagan got a lot of things right in it, includ...

Ignaz Semmelweis We seem to live in a time when skepticism of science and its experts runs deep and where political mandarins of all persuas...

Werner Heisenberg was on a boat with Niels Bohr and a few friends, shortly after he discovered his famous uncertainty principle in 1927. A b...

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

Two men walking in Princeton, New Jersey on a stuffy day. One shaggy-looking with unkempt hair, avuncular, wearing a hat and suspenders, loo...