The physicist Luis Alvarez was a wide-ranging thinker who contributed to the development of the atomic bomb and upended the ...

I am hiking along the Metacomet Ridge in Greenfield, Massachusetts – a rather steep basaltic structure, modestly less than five hundred feet high and topped by a stately brick tower constructed in ...

A new biography of Luis Alvarez captures the details but misses the drama in the career of a scientist whose work ranged from the Manhattan Project to the death of the dinosaurs.

‘Collisions’ details the world-altering genius of Luis Alvarez Alec Nevala-Lee’s biography revisits the life and career of the Nobel laureate physicist.

The first figure in the paper is a stick-figure drawing of bouncing such a ball, with a footnote: “This was first demonstrated to me by L. W. Alvarez using a Wham-O Super Ball.” Luis Alvarez was a ...

Two occurrences of the world’s greatest science festival took place last month — one in La Palma, Canary Islands, and one in Washington, D.C.

Physicist Luis Walter Alvarez, a age 77, lost a long battle with can cer on September 1,1988—and the scientific community lost one of it most creative and feisty members Luie, as he was known by ...

The main ideology the Nobel Foundation appears to be committed to, however, is the importance of preserving the prestige of the Nobel Prize—and in this it has succeeded.

Author Han Kang was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for her “intense poetic prose” on Oct. 10, per a press release by The Royal Swedish Academy. Kang’s work focuses on “historical ...

A.I.’s Sweep Reignites Debate Over Whether It’s Time to Modernize the Nobel Prize This year's awards have reignited debates over whether the Nobel Prizes should modernize their categories to ...

The 2024 Nobel prize in chemistry has been awarded to David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for their work on understanding the structure of proteins, which play vital roles in all living ...

The history of the winners of the Nobel Prize in physics, including Steven Chu, Aage Niels Bohr and Enrico Fermi.