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Light people: Nobel Laureate Prof. Eric Betzig
Super-resolution microscopy illuminated the hazy molecular world like a beacon, bringing significant changes to the fields of biology, optics and...
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The Race for the Nobel Prize in Physics
This chapter presents an analysis of Poincaré’s multiple nominations for the Nobel Prize in Physics, as well as the strategy devised by his friend,...
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Professorship in Frankfurt am Main, World War I, and Nobel Prize in Physics
Max von Laue probably did not know about the founding history of the University of Frankfurt when he was first informed of his appointment there...
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Light People: Professor Stefan Hell
“When all those around me are drunk, I alone am sober,” lamented an ancient Chinese poet on fighting a lone and helpless cause. In the world of...
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Robert Millikan, Japanese internment, and eugenics
Robert A. Millikan (1868–1953) was the second American to win the Nobel Prize in physics. At the peak of his influence, no scientist save Einstein...
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Those Who Are Against ITER
Although ITER is actively supported by the international scientific community, the project is quite often criticised (as you may have read on the...
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Matrix mechanics mis-prized: Max Born's belated nobelization
We examine evaluations of the contributions of Matrix Mechanics and Max Born to the formulation of quantum mechanics from Heisenberg's Helgoland...
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Light People: Professor Thomas G. Brown
What’s the first thing that comes to your mind when it comes to the University of Rochester? It is the first optical education program in the USA,...
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The Pursuit of Reality Narrative History of the Quantum and the Great Minds That Made it
In a highly accessible style, this book presents a narrative history of the quantum theory with the new developments that intrigue all inquisitive...
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N.R. Sen: Father of Indian Applied mathematics
Nikhilranjan Sen (1894–1963), popularly known as N.R. Sen, is known as the Father of Applied Mathematics and founder of the Calcutta School of...
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Guglielmo Marconi, Augusto Righi and the invention of wireless telegraphy
One of the major accomplishments of the late nineteenth-century applied physics was, as it is well known, the development of wireless telegraphy by...
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Black Holes
This chapter describes the work done for the Nobel Prizes awarded in 2020 to R. Genzel, A. M. Ghez and R. Penrose. Their work relates to black holes,...
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Radio and X-Ray Astronomy
This chapter describes the work done for the Nobel prizes awarded to M. Ryle and A. Hewish in 1974 and R. Giacconi in 2002. Their work involves radio...
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Introduction
The introductory chapter of this book recounts the evolution of classical and EM theory, discovery of photoelectric effect, and quantum concept of...
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Saga and Developments of Raman Spectroscopy
Raman spectroscopy is a highly utilized technique for material characterization advocated in 1928 by the great Indian Physicist Sir C. V. Raman and...
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The Physics of Elementary Particles
The development of cosmic ray physics led scientists to discover that astrophysical sources produce projectiles of extremely high energy that reach...
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Preparation and Characterization of Nanoparticles
In 1960 Nobel Prize winning physicist Richard Feynman considered the expectation of future science on nanostructures.
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Light People: Elizabeth Rogan
Throughout history, there have been many outstanding women whose achievements continue to impress and amaze us today. For example, in the field of...
