Robert J. Schoelkopf, newly named as the inaugural William A. Norton Professor of Applied Physics and Physics, is noted for his research on quantum transport, single-electron devices and charge dynamics in nanostructures.When he won the American Physical...
Frederic M. Richards, a structural biologist at Yale and an innovative leader in the study of the relationships between protein structures and their biological functions, died of natural causes at home on Jan. 11. He was 83 years old.Richards, Sterling...
The names of some Nobel Prize-winning physicists are well known, even outside the scientific community — such as Einstein, whose name has became synonymous with genius; Heisenberg, who had a fundamental principle of quantum mechanics named after him; or...