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UNESCO celebrates 2nd edition of International Day of Light

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has celebrated the 2nd edition of International Day of Light (IDL-2019) on 16th May to mark the role light plays in our daily lives. IDL aims to raise awareness of the critical role light-based technologies play in our lives, elevating science, technology, art, and culture to ..

Topics: Laser • Maiman • Organizations • Physicists • Theodore Maiman • UNESCO

UK issues new ‘black hole’ coin in honour of Stephen Hawking

The UK’s Royal Mint has recently issued a new commemorative 50 pence coin inspired by the late legendary British physicist Stephen Hawking’s seminal work on black holes. The coin was designed by British engraver and printmaker Edwina Ellis. The purpose of the commemorative coin is to celebrate the life and “ground-breaking” achievements of Hawking, who ..

Topics: Coin • Commemorative coin • England • Fifty pence • Hawking • Physicists • Royal Mint • Scientists • Stephen Hawking

Russian physicist and Nobel Prize laureate Dr. Zhores Alferov passes away

Dr. Zhores Alferov (88), a Russian physicist and Nobel Prize laureate, has passed away on 2nd of March in St Petersburg. In 2000, Alferov received the Nobel Prize in Physics together with US scientists Jack Kilby and Herbert Kroemer, for developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed-and optoelectronics. He was the first Russian to win a ..

Topics: Dmitri Z. Garbuzov • Herbert Kroemer • Heterojunction • Ioffe Institute • Nobel laureates in Physics • Physicists • Russian Academy of Sciences • Russian scientists • Science and technology in Russia • Zhores Alferov

2018 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded

American scientist Arthur Ashkin, French engineer Gerard Mourou and Canadian professor Donna Strickland have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work in the field of laser physics. Dr. Ashkin has been awarded the Prize “for the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems. Dr. Mourou and Dr. Strickland have been awarded ..

Topics: Arthur Ashkin • Donna Strickland • Gérard Mourou • Laser science • Maria Goeppert Mayer • Nobel laureates in Physics • Nobel Prize in Physics • Optical tweezers • Optics • Physicists • Physics • Tweezers

Stephen Hawking, legendary theoretical physicist passes away

Stephen Hawking (76), the legendary British theoretical physicist, has passed away in Cambridge, United Kingdom on March 14, 2018. Known for his unique way of speaking while living his life in a wheelchair, Hawking became an emblem of human determination and curiosity. He is known for his groundbreaking work with black holes and relativity. He ..

Topics: A Brief History of Time • Albert Einstein • Black hole • British films • Cosmologists • Hawking • Physical sciences • Physicists • Physics • Stephen Hawking • The Theory of Everything • Transhumanists