Renowned experimental physicist, Nobel laureate and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Emeritus Rainer Weiss, passed away on Aug. 25 at the age of 92. Nergis Mavalvala, dean of the MIT ...

MIT researchers have devised a new molecular technique that lets electrons probe inside atomic nuclei, replacing massive particle accelerators with a tabletop setup. By studying radium monofluoride, ...

Max Tegmark was raised in Sweden. He received his two bachelor degrees at different universities there, one in Physics from the Royal Institute of Technology, and the other in Economics at the ...

Washington, DC – An MIT professor recognized as a world leader and innovator in the field of experimental electromagnetic nuclear physics has been named the first recipient of the Outstanding Nuclear ...

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A prominent male physicist once told Vera Kistiakowsky, who arrived at MIT in 1963 as a researcher in the Laboratory for Nuclear Science, “It is too bad that you were not born a man.” Later, she was ...