Nobel Prize for physics

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. Source: YouTube screengrab

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar: A Man of Stellar Physics and Stellar Grace

Aswin Sekhar 23/08/2018

“I discovered what true mathematical elegance is from Subrahmanyan...

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

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

Anil Shaji 15/05/2018

A former student of the noted physicist recalls Sudarshan's...

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

Vasudevan Mukunth 03/10/2017

But by giving the prize only to Kip Thorne,...

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...

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

The Wire Staff 04/10/2016

The 2016 Nobel Prize for physics has been awarded...