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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SOME ten years ago, Dr. Nicolas Rashevsky, then a young mathematical physicist, turned his mind to biological problems; and ever since he has been writing papers on the borderland between physics ...

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, ...

Mathematical equations aren't just useful -- many are quite beautiful. ... "The point is it's really very simple," said Bill Murray, a particle physicist at the CERN laboratory in Geneva.

Mitchell J. Feigenbaum, a pioneer in the field of mathematical physics known as chaos, died on June 30 in Manhattan. He was 74. The cause was a heart attack, his stepson Sasha Dobrovolsky said.

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.

MIT physicist Max Tegmark believes the universe is actually made of math, ... In Tegmark's view, everything in the universe — humans included — is part of a mathematical structure.

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.

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 ...