Topic: Burton Richter
MIT Institute Professor Emeritus wins Enrico Fermi Award. . Last week President Obama named Mildred S. Dresselhaus, emeritus institute professor of...
0 . Hearts, and wallets, were open Thursday in Union Square Park at the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation's sixth Heroes & Hearts Luncheon...
Spike Narayan watched a Tesla electric sports car rocket from zero to 60 mph (100 kph) in less than four seconds and knew batteries would be the next big thing. "It's hard to understand you're not in a gas powered ...
March 22, 1931, Brooklyn, N.Y., U.S.), American physicist who was jointly awarded the 1976 Nobel Prize for Physics with Samuel C.C. Ting for the discovery of a new subatomic particle, the J/psi particle.. Ting, cowinner of the Nobel ...
meson, any member of a family of subatomic particles composed of a quark and an antiquark. Predicted theoretically in 1935 by the Japanese physicist Yukawa Hideki, the existence of mesons was confirmed in 1947 by a team led by the English physicist ...
In December 20, 1951, just outside the tiny town of Arco, Idaho, four 100-watt lightbulbs strung on a single cord flickered to life and then glowed brightly, becoming the first appliances ever powered by nuclear energy. The small group of scientists watching ...