Nobel Prize for physics

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. Source: YouTube screengrab

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar: A Man of Stellar Physics and Stellar Grace

E.C.G. Sudarshan delivering a lecture in 2011. Source: YouTube

Remembering E.C.G. Sudarshan, a Seminal Theoretical Physicist

L-R: Kip Thorne (credit: LIGO Lab/Caltech), Rainer Weiss (credit: IAU, CC BY 4.0) and Barry Barish (source: YouTube)

Nobel Prize for Physics Goes to Trio That Pioneered Gravitational Wave Astronomy

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

David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz, the winners of the 2016 Nobel Prize for physics. Credit: nobelprize.org

Physics Nobel Goes to Three Scientists for Work on Exotic Forms of Matter