Richard Garwin, who died on May 13, 2025, at the age of 97, was sometimes called " the most influential scientist you've never heard of ." He got his ...

Garwin was best known as the designer of the hydrogen bomb, but he was also a longtime arms control expert, IBM researcher ...

Richard Garwin never saw a nuclear explosion in person, but his fingerprints are on one of the most pivotal blasts in history ...

Many scientists contributed to the final result, but he was the one who, as a young physicist, designed the world’s most ...

George Mason University’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences released a report examining Nobel Prize winners in late 2024, and one of the findings has garnered interest, in light of the ...

One of them is Maria Ressa. She's a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and advocate for press freedom, who gained notoriety for covering the brutal regime of Rodrigo Duterte, the former president of the ...

Philip Dybvig is the latest IU alum to get a Nobel Prize — receiving the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2022. He graduated from IU with a degree in mathematics and physics in 1976. Some ...

One of Makens’ early claims to fame is his assembly work on the first artificial nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile-1, built in 1942 by Nobel Prize winner Enrico Fermi. The Fermi reactor came to Michigan ...

U.S. President Donald Trump hinted that his contribution to the Abraham Accords could potentially make him a worthy contender for the Nobel Peace Prize. What Happened: During a meeting with ...

President Donald Trump expressed approval Thursday after a reporter asked Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre whether Trump should be nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to ...

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In 1950, Enrico Fermi asked, “Where is everybody?” His sense of cosmic loneliness is not necessarily a testimony to the small number of intelligent partners in our cosmic neighborhood but could ...