In honor of what would have been pioneering German physicist Hedwig Kohn's 132nd birthday Friday, Google's doodle team put together a colorful laboratory-inspired illustration for the search giant's ...

What does physics have to do with politics? Or racism? The answer is nothing… unless we are talking about Germany in the first half of the 20th century. In that case, we must highlight the emergence ...

BERLIN: German physicist Peter Gruenberg, a joint Nobel Prize winner whose work revolutionised digital data storage, has died aged 78, his research centre said Monday. Professor Gruenberg died last ...

Two American scientists and a German won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for optics research that is improving the accuracy of such precision instruments as GPS locators, atomic clocks and ...

German physicist Peter Grünberg, a joint Nobel Prize winner whose work revolutionized digital data storage, has died aged 78, his research centre said Monday. Professor Grünberg died last week, said a ...

Many scientists see themselves as disinterested pursuers of knowledge, working above politics, cultural whim and intellectual fashion. Yet the public is not always ready to accept this. Despite ...

Did German physicists have a plan in the 1930s? And if so, was their physics any help? Last week, on the plane back from Chicago, I finished Philip Ball’s book about physics in Germany in the nineteen ...

Robert P. Crease applauds the story of three great physicists who struggled to maintain their integrity during the Third Reich. Beware! This book is not what it seems. The subtitle suggests a ...