Bose-Einstein condensate

(L-R) Meghnad Saha, Mohandas Gandhi and Satyendra Nath Bose. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Why Gandhi, Meghnad Saha and Satyendra Nath Bose Didn’t Win the Nobel Prize

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Though the Nobel Prizes may rank among the most...

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Knabenphysik At 92: Remembering the Boys’ Club of Early Quantum Mechanics

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Pauli's exclusion principle turns 92 this month. But when...

A cup filled with superfluid helium. Because of quantum mechanical effects, the helium will crawl up the sides of the cup in a thin film and collect as a droplet on the outside, and drip below. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

How the Physics Laureates Used Geometry to Tame the Very Weird of the Very Small

Vasudevan Mukunth 04/10/2016

The physics Nobel laureates were able to use ideas...

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Relativity’s Kin, the Bose-Einstein Condensate, is 90 Now

Vasudevan Mukunth 02/12/2015

It's been 20 years since physicists realised the first...