Out of 225 people awarded the Nobel Prize in physics, only five have been women. This is a very small number, and certainly smaller than 50%—the percent of women in the human population.

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. Eva Olsson, chair of the 2023 Nobel Committee for Physics, began the press conference this morning with an explanation of attosecond physics. A ...

Sweden's Royal Academy of Sciences announced Tuesday that it was granting the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton for their “discoveries and inventions in arti ...

Researchers have experimentally recreated another fundamental theoretical model from quantum physics, which goes back to the Nobel Prize laureate Werner Heisenberg. The basis for the successful ...

US House starts reprimand of Democrat Al Green for disrupting Trump speech The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives kicked off a process on Wednesday that could lead lawmakers to ...

Scientists are investigating how structures made from several layers of graphene stack up in terms of their fundamental ...

Quantum mechanics researchers from France, Austria, and the United States were awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell ...

This photo combo shows the 2024 Nobel Prize winners in Physics, professor John Hopfield, left, of Princeton University, and professor Geoffrey Hinton, of the University of Toronto, Tuesday, Oct. 8 ...