Howard Stein, acclaimed UChicago philosopher and historian of physics, 1929‒2024 Scholar remembered for his curiosity, elegant writing, and dedication to the history and philosophy of physics ...

First came the idea of splitting the atom; then, a chain of events leading to a moment forever etched in collective memory—the use of nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

The surprises in the history of physics are far too many to comprehensively describe, but we polled a variety of physicists for some of their favorites. A few discoveries, such as the accelerating ...

In 1988, Paula Findlen, a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, was visiting the archives of the ...

Sam Baron receives funding from the Australian Research Council. The Matter of Everything tells the history of physics through experiments. Any book about the history of science for a general ...

Closed doors Many Manhattan Project physicists who worked on the creation of the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos viewed the secrecy surrounding the project as contrary to scientific ideals. (Courtesy: ...

That experiment, says Indianara Silva, a professor of physical sciences and history at the State University of Feira de Santana in Brazil, was the 1949 Wu-Shaknov experiment.

In fact, a fair reading of history suggests that quantum theory is the most dramatic shift in science’s conception of reality since the ancient Greeks deposed mythological explanations of ...

The history of physics is not physics. You cannot win a Nobel Prize in chemistry by determining who the first chemist was. And book reviews rarely rise to the level of literature.