According to Alfred Nobel's will, the Nobel Prize in Physics was to go to "the person who shall have made the most important ...

At just 25, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin applied quantum physics to a treasure trove of astronomical observations to show that stars are mostly hydrogen and helium.

Luis Jauregui, a professor at UC Irvine, is an expert in quantum physics who is smart enough to describe his work in terms that are foreign to a non-scientist, yet affable enough to explain it anyway, ...

MIT researchers found that a hidden atomic order can persist in metals even after they undergo extreme processing. For ...

The adage goes "like mother like daughter," and in the case of Irene Joliot-Curie, truer words were never spoken. She was the ...