Nobel laureate Peter Higgs gave his name to one of the great scientific discoveries of the last century, earning a place alongside Albert Einstein and Max Planck in physics textbooks. Through ...
UC Berkeley professor emeritus John Clarke shares Nobel Prize in Physics with 2 proteges, Michel Devoret and John Martinis, now professors at UC Santa Barbara. Clarke says he thought the call at 2 a.m ...
A team of physicists has experimentally confirmed a long-predicted sequence of exotic magnetic phases in an atomically thin material. When cooled, the material forms tiny magnetic vortices before ...
Observation of BKT and six-state clock phases reveals how magnetism behaves in two dimensions and may inspire ultracompact technologies. When researchers at UT Austin coaxed an atomically thin sheet ...
PARIS (Reuters) - French physicist and philosopher Bernard d'Espagnat has won the 2009 Templeton Prize, billed as the world's largest annual award to an individual, for his work affirming the ...