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Service at every milestone: UTC to celebrate staff and faculty achievements
3+ day, 7+ hour ago (123+ words) The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga annually celebrates staff and faculty who have reached notable career milestones. This year, 183 employees will be honored during the UTC Service Awards Annual Luncheon on Wednesday, Sept. 16. The luncheon, a signature event of Founder’s…...
Werner Heisenberg nearly failed his 1923 PhD oral because he could not explain the resolving power of a microscope—or even how a storage battery worked. Experimental physicist Wilhelm Wien wanted to fail him, but his mentor Arnold Sommerfeld defended his brilliance as a theorist, securing a mediocre cum laude—four years before Heisenberg used a microscope thought experiment to explain the uncertainty principle.
1+ week, 14+ hour ago (921+ words) Heisenberg's near-failed 1923 doctorate exposed his weakness in experimental physics, then the microscope returned in his 1927 explanation of quantum uncertainty....
Her work was key to a landmark experiment. She was credited in a footnote.
1+ week, 14+ hour ago (107+ words) The Washington Post Mary Tsingou Menzel, who has died at 97, played a central role in a Los Alamos physics experiment. A half-century later, she finally got her due. When she became a programmer at the birthplace of the atomic bomb…...
The Further Ig Nobel Adventures of The Harts
3+ week, 2+ day ago (99+ words) Improbable Research The Harts come to the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony every year, journeying from their home in Florida to be very much a part of things. This year they will make the journey from Florida to Zurich, Switzerland for…...
Claudette-MacKay-Lassonde Excellence Scholarship 2026: Canyu Wu is awarded $25,000 by Polytechnique Montréal
3+ week, 4+ day ago (99+ words) The Globe and Mail Claudette-MacKay-Lassonde Excellence Scholarship 2026: Canyu Wu is awarded $25,000 by Polytechnique Montréal MONTREAL, Aug. 18, 2026 /CNW/ -- In a ceremony held earlier today, Polytechnique Montréal awarded the second Claudette-MacKay-Lassonde Excellence Scholarship to Canyu Wu, an undergraduate student in bioengineering at…...
Graduate Student Proves the Fractal Uncertainty Principle
1+ mon, 14+ hour ago (1532+ words) Ada Zejun Shen/Quanta Magazine At the quantum scale, tiny particles behave in bizarre ways. One reason for this is the uncertainty principle, which says that the more you know about where a quantum particle is, the less you can…...
Haim Sompolinsky wins top physics prize
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (424+ words) The Harvard Scientist’s pioneering brain research was recognized with the Dirac Medal Aug 11, 2026 / Read time: 3 minutes Haim Sompolinsky, a Harvard theoretical physicist and neuroscientist, has won the Dirac Medal and Prize, one of the highest honors in physics. Also announced…...
Claude’s attempt at the Riemann Hypothesis
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (497+ words) The Riemann Zeta Function and How it Relates to the actual Riemann Hypothesis The Riemann hypothesis makes the claim that “all nontrivial zeros of the Riemann zeta function have a real part equal to 1/2”. The Riemann zeta function is linked…...
Belgian Nobel laureate Fran??ois Englert, mind behind the 'God particle', dies aged 93
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (16+ words) Belgian Nobel laureate François Englert, mind behind the 'God particle', dies aged 93 The Brussels Times...
Why PSI No Longer Has Physics Articles | Principia Scientific, Intl.
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (1060+ words) Written by Herb Rose on August 4, 2026. Posted in Current News This publication is named after Sir Isaac Newton’s “Philospie Principia Natualis Mathematica”, considered one of the cornerstones of modern physics but of late it has been devoid of articles on…...