In the early years of the 20th century the name of Albert Einstein achieved fame in popular culture. Few who recognized the name understood the theories that he developed. The ideas which caught the ...

Abstract While the concept of “classical physics” has long framed our understanding of the environment from which modern physics emerged, it has consistently been read back into a period in which the ...

Oct. 17, Tuesday -- Our entire outlook is about to change as physicists put forward theories that our universe is just a tiny pocket in a stupendous landscape, says Leonard Susskind, professor of ...

THE theory of atomic structure has, during the past few years, reached a stage of sufficient success and stability for it to be possible to describe many of its features in a simple manner. There is a ...

FOR many years Prof. Crew has been lecturing to students of Northwestern University (in Evanston, a suburb of Chicago) on the history of science. He has now put his lecture notes into book form, so ...