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, ...

Einstein was a great thinker who made plenty of mistakes—errors that sometimes led to more meaningful discoveries in physics, ...

Prof. Emeritus Howard Stein, a renowned philosopher and historian of physics at the University of Chicago, died March 8 at his home in Hyde Park. He was 95. A trained philosopher and mathematician, ...

In the 1920s, when quantum mechanics was young, physicists Jane Dewey and Laura Chalk performed some of the first experimental tests of the theory, based on a phenomenon called the Stark effect. Later ...

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 audience ...

Fin-de-siècle physics: a world picture in flux -- The world of physics -- Discharges in gases and what followed -- Atomic architecture -- The slow rise of quantum theory -- Physics at low temperatures ...

A short piece by Aviva Rothman, assistant professor in the Department of History, appeared in an issue of Physics Today. Titled “Johannes Kepler’s pursuit of harmony,” the piece is adapted from ...

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 ...