Ettore Majorana vanished in March 1938. According to Frank Close in Destroyer of Worlds, the 31-year-old Sicilian physicist ...

A Los Alamos collaboration has replicated an important but largely forgotten physics experiment: the first deuterium-tritium ...

A letter from renowned physicist Albert Einstein outlining his own role in the development of the atomic bomb and his ...

Oppenheimer’s love of contradictory pairs grew into a philosophical stance. He borrowed it from his mentor Niels Bohr, also a quantum physicist. Bohr called it complementarity.

Many of these, which are 20 times more destructive than those produced by Oppenheimer’s Manhattan Project and which destroyed Hiroshima, sit on the top of ICBMs in land-based silos — in the US ...

Hans Bethe, Enrico Fermi, Richard Feynman and Edward Teller, to name but a few, made more important contributions to physics than Oppenheimer. And, outside Los Alamos we have Niels Bohr, Werner ...

Oppenheimer's grandson has disputed the incident, saying there's no record of it. In the movie, Niels Bohr nearly takes a bite out of the apple, but that scene was invented for dramatic effect.

Wellerstein helped us separate fact from fiction in "Oppenheimer." Fact: Oppenheimer did try to poison his tutor (but Niels Bohr wasn't there) While studying at Cambridge in the mid-1920s, Oppenheimer ...

Manhattan Project: Working as an assistant to his father, Niels Bohr, Aage Bohr proved instrumental in interpreting for some members of the Manhattan Project. Both Feynman and Segrè complained ...