Physics

Distant Supernovae The Hubble Space Telescope images pinpoint three distant supernovae, which exploded and died billions of years ago. Scientists are using these faraway light…

Laser Spectroscopy Laser spectroscopy has led to advances in the precision with which spectral line frequencies can be measured, and this has fundamental significance for…

Neutron Spectroscopy Neutron Spectroscopy measures the atomic and magnetic motions of atoms. Neutron scattering is a powerful tool for the investigation of microscopic properties of…

Ion Trap Technique It is now more than 20 years since the first reviews of ion traps appeared (Dehmelt 1967, 1969). Since that time, the…

The Quantum Theory of Optical Coherence In the early sixties Roy was drawn into a completely different topic. He developed the quantum theory of optical…

GMR: Giant Magnetoresistance Since discovery in 1988 GMR has generated a lot of interest among academic and industrial laboratories due to deep fundamental physics that…

The asteroid belt is a area of space between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter where the majority of the asteroids in our Solar System…

The age of the universe is approximately 13.77 billion years. This age is considered by measuring the distances and radial velocities of other galaxies, most…

Lise Meitner (1878 – 1968) Austrian-born Swedish nuclear physicist. Born in Vienna, she worked with radiochemist, Otto Hahn. They discovered the element protactinium and studied…

Marie Curie (1867 -1934) was a Polish-born physicist and chemist, working mainly in France, who is famous for her pioneering research on radioactivity. Not only…

Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck (1858 – 1947), was a German theoretical physicist who originated quantum theory, which won him the Nobel Prize in Physics…

James Clerk Maxwell (1831 – 1879) was a Scottish theoretical physicist. His theory of electromagnetism united all previously unrelated observations, experiments, and equations of electricity,…