Renowned mathematical physicist and Princeton University Thomas D. Jones Professor Emeritus Arthur Wightman died of Alzheimer's disease Jan. 13 at Veterans Nursing Home in Edison, N.J. He was 90. He ...

A renowned Japanese physicist and writer analyzed trains in Tokyo about a century ago to ride less crowded cars, and another ...

Mathematical physicist Elliott Lieb has been selected to receive the 2022 APS Medal for Exceptional Achievement in Research for “major contributions to theoretical physics through obtaining exact ...

AIP recognizes mathematical physicist Mahouton Norbert Hounkonnou with 2023 Tate Medal for International Leadership in Physics The medal was awarded to Hounkonnou for his efforts to build and ...

Mathematical physicist Dr. Stephen Hawking in his office circa 1982. Bettmann Archive/Getty Images The family did not disclose the cause of death, but said he “died peacefully” at his home in ...

The celebrated mathematical physicist, then 87 and still two years away from winning the Nobel Prize, is in the kitchen preparing tea and biscuits. It’s a stereotypical English moment, ...

A mathematical physicist and two astronomers have won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries relating to the most massive and mysterious objects in the Universe — black holes. British ...

A physicist faced with a fine for running a stop sign has proved his innocence by publishing a mathematical paper, and has even won a prize for his efforts.

In December 2017, Peter Woit, a mathematical physicist at Columbia University in New York City, wrote on his blog that the journal’s acceptance would create a situation that is “historically ...

Physicist Dmitri Krioukov probably isn’t the first person to talk his way out of a traffic ticket, but the University of California researcher got a $400 charge dropped by writing a paper ...

How one physicist is unraveling the mathematics of knitting. ... Matsumoto’s research builds on knot theory (SN: 10/31/08), a set of mathematical principles that define how knots form.