Read article: Guglielmo Marconi: radio star
A lack of formal education, high-powered family connections and an unstoppable will to succeed helped Guglielmo Marconi to transmit the first radio signal across the Atlantic and launch the wireless-c...
Read article: Isaac Newton: the gifted genius
It seems unlikely that we will ever lose our fascination for the man whom David Berlinski calls “the largest figure in the history of Western science” and the author of “the greatest...
Read article: The industrial physicist who has it all
Cherry Murray is vice president for physical-sciences research at Bell Labs. Valerie Jamieson finds out how she made it to the top in one of the world's most famous physics labs
Read article: Revenge of the science writer
Robert P Crease recalls a revealing encounter with Richard Feynman
Read article: Max Planck: the reluctant revolutionary
It was 100 years ago when Max Planck published a paper that gave birth to quantum mechanics – but he didn't immediately realize the consequences of his work, says Helge Kragh
Read article: Countdown to the Nobel prize
The Nobel Foundation celebrates its 100th birthday this year. Peter Rodgers looks at how the winners are selected and some of the discoveries that might be recognized this year
Read article: Hawking: the cardboard creation
Julian Barbour reviews the play God and Stephen Hawking by Robin Hawdon
When Murray Gell-Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1969, his colleague at the California Institute of Technology, Richard Feynman, said: “This event marks the public recognition of...
Tim Berners-Lee’s name will be familiar to most readers of Physics World as the one-time Oxford physics student who, while working at the CERN particle-physics lab in Geneva, invented the World ...
In 1897 Max Planck wrote the following about the question of whether women should be allowed to study at German universities: “If a woman has a special gift for the tasks of theoretical physics&...
