After netting the world’s highest-paying science award, preeminent theoretical physicist Gerard ’t Hooft reflects on his ...

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This year’s Breakthrough Prize—popularly known as the “Oscars of Science”—brought the world’s leading scientists together ...

This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features William Phillips, who shared the 1997 Nobel Prize for Physics for his work on cooling and trapping atoms using laser light.

He received a Bachelor of Arts in chemistry from the University of Illinois in 1942. (1923–2005 ) shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in physics for his part in the invention and development of the integrated ...

The Nobel Prize is one of the most prestigious awards in the world. The current president should not be considered for the ...

The Hungarian scientist says he cannot reconcile the institution's failure to stand up against Russia's war crimes in Ukraine ...

Congratulations to our author, Gerard 't Hooft, one of the world’s most pre-eminent theoretical physicists, on being awarded the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics! He is known for ...