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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…...
Honoring the Best and Brightest
3+ day, 14+ hour ago (151+ words) Timothy White, Director, Army Manufacturing Technology, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology, speaks at Department of War Manufacturing Technology (ManTech) Program's Personnel Honor Awards at the Pentagon's Hall of Heroes, August 10, 2026. The ceremony…...
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…...
Rice’s Huang Named SPIE Fellow for Contributions to Optics and Photonics
4+ week, 2+ day ago (368+ words) Shengxi Huang, an associate professor in Rice University’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been elected a fellow of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, placing her among a select group of researchers recognized for advancing technologies…...
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...