Top physicist to quit ‘amateur’ Britain after Stephen Hawking snub

One of the leading theoretical physicists in Britain is to leave for Canada, having failed to receive funding for his plan to set up an institute in honour of Stephen Hawking, his friend and colleague. Neil Turok, professor of mathematical physics at Cambridge University, will now realise his ambition at the Perimeter Institute in Ontario.

Nobel-winning physicist Willis Lamb dies at 94 (AP)

AP - Willis E. Lamb Jr., a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose work on the electron structure of the hydrogen atom revolutionized the quantum theory of matter, has died. He was 94.

Robert Jastrow

The US astronomer, cosmologist and physicist Robert Jastrow was the former director of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York and a professor at Mount Wilson Observatory and Hale Solar Laboratory.

Physicist who developed the atom bomb, dead at 96

Physicist John Wheeler, who had a key role in the development of the atom bomb and later gave the space phenomenon black holes their name, has died at 96.

John A. Wheeler, 96; physicist coined the term 'black hole'

John A. Wheeler, the fertile-minded physicist who popularized mind-stretching ideas about black holes, worm holes and quantum foam and also confounded admirers by helping to conceive some of the most potent weapons of mass destruction, has died. He was 96.

A crash course in true political science

Daniel Suson has a doctorate in astrophysics and has worked on the superconducting super collider and a forthcoming NASA probe. Now he's heading back to school to take on an even trickier task — getting elected to public office.