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On Tuesday, October 8, the Nobel Committee announced the winners of the physics prize. They are John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable ...
Andre Geim took British citizenship to accept a knighthood. He has just learned he can no longer be a citizen of the ...
This photo combo shows the 2024 Nobel Prize winners in Physics, professor John Hopfield, left, of Princeton University, and professor Geoffrey Hinton, of the University of Toronto, Tuesday, Oct. 8 ...
The Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier for looking at electrons in atoms by the tiniest of split seconds.
The physics prize carries a cash award of 11 million Swedish kronor ($1 million) from a bequest left by the award's creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel. It has been awarded 117 times.
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to two scientists for developing the methods that are the foundations for today's powerful AI.
The Nobel Prize in physics was awarded a day after two American scientists won the medicine prize for their discovery of microRNA. Three scientists won last year’s physics Nobel for providing ...
The 2023 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to a team of scientists who created a ground-breaking technique using lasers to understand the extremely rapid movements of electrons, which were ...
Each October, physics is in the news with the awarding of the Nobel Prize. The work acknowledged through this most prestigious award often seems far removed from our everyday lives, with prizes given ...
The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to scientists Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez for their discoveries about black holes. This year’s prize was about “the darkest ...
STOCKHOLM — Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for work that found order in seeming disorder, helping to explain and predict complex forces of nature, including expanding ...
The Nobel Prize in physics is given to Canadian American cosmologist James Peebles and Swiss scientists Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz.