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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 427

Physics

This handout photograph released by CERN shows the insertion of the ALPHA-g apparatus at CERN in Geneva on October 15, 2018. (Handout/CERN/AFP)
September 28, 2023, 3:49 am
Mysterious antimatter observed falling down due to gravity for the first time
Hailed as a ‘huge milestone’ in physics, research involving Israeli scientist confirms prediction made by Einstein’s theory of relativity
By Daniel Lawler
A letter written by Albert Einstein on December 26, 1928, and addressed to 12-year-old Los Angeles resident Arthur L. Cohen, regarding the laws of motion as they relate to his theories of relativity. (Nate D. Sanders Auctions)
April 26, 2022, 2:52 pm
Einstein’s letter to a 12-year-old boy from LA up for auction
In 1928 letter, written by Einstein shortly after receiving the Nobel Prize, he replies to a question posed by Arthur L. Cohen about the physics of motion
By ToI Staff
A highly magnified image of the star Earendel. The collection of yellow-looking galaxies form the massive galaxy-cluster lens that magnifies background objects lying behind it. The inset shows the highly magnified red galaxy, host to Earendel, stretched into an arc due to lensing, and the highly magnified star is marked with a white arrow. (NASA, ESA, Brian Welch, Dan Coe)
March 31, 2022, 1:25 pm
US, Israeli scientists document oldest star ever seen, 13 billion light-years away
Light detected is so old it’s from when the universe was just 7% of its current age; Israeli professor plays key role in verifying the finding
By Nathan Jeffay
Cumrun Vafa. (Screenshot/YouTube)
October 21, 2021, 9:59 pm
Iran grants scientific award to 2 US-based physicists
Mustafa Prize winner Cumrun Vafa of Harvard says ‘there is no border for science and technology and they belong to all human beings’
By AP
Undated photo shows famed physicist Albert Einstein. (AP Photo, File)
September 22, 2021, 3:25 pm
‘Most valuable ever’ Einstein notes on relativity to be auctioned
Christie’s expects handwritten manuscript of theory’s early version to fetch up to $4 million when it goes up for sale in November; the only other similar document is in Israel
By ToI Staff
This August 2017 photo made available by Fermilab shows the Muon g-2 ring at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory outside of Chicago. (Reidar Hahn/Fermilab via AP)
April 7, 2021, 9:04 pm
‘Tantalizing’ results of 2 experiments shake up physics rulebook
Physicist says preliminary findings from recent research on muon particle could ‘take us beyond our current understanding of nature’
By Seth Borenstein
Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner, 1912 (Public Domain via WikimediaCommons)
December 21, 2020, 4:30 am
75 years post-Hiroshima, Jewish ‘mother of the bomb’ inspires spy thriller novel
Physicist Lise Meitner discovered nuclear fission soon after fleeing Nazi Germany in 1938, but Nobel Prize was given to a man as she saw her breakthrough used in ways she opposed
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Branched flow, with bubbles in the background, as observed through a microscope at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (courtesy of the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)
July 1, 2020, 6:02 pm
Blowing bubbles, Israeli physicists accidentally make breakthrough on light
Technion researchers demonstrate branched flow, a ‘beautiful’ process that scientists have written about for years, but never seen
By Nathan Jeffay
Marcelo Gleiser (Screen grab via YouTube)
March 19, 2019, 12:39 pm
Physicist Marcelo Gleiser on winning Templeton Prize: ‘Science doesn’t kill God’
Brazilian Jew wins $1.5 million award from foundation named for man ‘seeking proofs of divine agency in every branch of science’
By Ivan Couronne
Portrait of Prof. Dr. Lise Meitner, the Swedish noted woman scientist, who assisted in the development of the atomic bomb, pictured in West Berlin, West Germany, May 11, 1957. (AP Photo/Werner Kreusch)
February 9, 2019, 4:35 am
The forgotten Jewish woman of nuclear physics who was denied a Nobel Prize
After fleeing Nazi Germany, Lise Meitner used letters to guide her colleagues in Berlin to discover nuclear fission, but she was not credited when the findings were published
By Timothy J. Jorgensen
In this photo taken Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018., a replica of the International Prototype Kilogram is pictured at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, in Sevres, near Paris (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
November 16, 2018, 4:50 pm
‘Grand K,’ world’s kilogram measure being retired
Metal cylinder that has been the world’s sole true kilo since 1889 to be replaced by equation based on a physics constant
By John Leicester
Arthur Ashkin (YouTube)
October 3, 2018, 3:29 am
96-year-old Jewish Nobel Prize winner says he’s driven by science not accolades
Arthur Ashkin revolutionized eye surgery with his invention of ‘optical tweezers’ that grab particles, atoms, viruses and other living cells with laser beam fingers
By ToI Staff and AP
Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland, 2018’s Nobel laureates in physics. (Courtesy: Nobel Assembly)
October 2, 2018, 2:59 pm
Arthur Ashkin, 2 others win Nobel Physics Prize for laser research
96-year-old Jewish American who revolutionized eye surgery is oldest Nobel laureate ever
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Albert Einstein. (AP Photo)
March 14, 2018, 12:30 pm
Albert Einstein’s candid letters to his sister to be auctioned
Collection includes rare acknowledgements of his discoveries’ importance; thoughts on fame and his waning brilliance
By ToI Staff
British physicist Stephen Hawking attends a conference with Israeli high school students at the Bloomfield Museum of Science in Jerusalem December 10, 2006 (photo credit: Orel Cohen/Flash90)
March 14, 2018, 5:59 am
Stephen Hawking, who sought to unlock secrets of the universe, dies at age 76
Britain’s most famous modern-day scientist had been expected to live only a few years after crippled with ALS; family mourns ‘an extraordinary man whose legacy will live on’
By AFP and ToI Staff
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