“It’s about being able to step back and look at your result. Does it make sense?” says Stefan Funk, a particle physicist who ...

Between 1946 and 1950, he studied at the University of Chicago under Enrico Fermi, a Nobel laureate ... In 1957, Lee was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics together with Chen-Ning Yang for work ...

Fermi was a Nobel Prize winning physicist famous for quickly estimating answers to questions, like how many heart beats are ...

of which more than 200 Nobel Prize winners have been members, including Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi, Linus Pauling, Francis Crick and James Watson.

New Zealanders are expressing frustration after U.S. President Donald Trump credited Americans with splitting the atom in his second inaugural address——an achievement widely attributed to Ernest ...

The planet 51 Pegasi b is a long way from Prior Lake, 48 light years (several billion miles) to be exact. It orbits a fifth magnitude star, similar to our Sun, in the constellation Pegasus. It was ...

By this time, he had already earned a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his ... chain reaction in a nuclear reactor was achieved by Enrico Fermi’s team in 1942 at Chicago, followed by the Manhattan ...