This post is about C. N. Yang, one of the greatest physicists of the 20th century, who passed away last week at the age of 103. Yang received the Nobel prize in 1957 and made towering contributions to several areas in physics, as detailed below. Quick academic bio : Yang was born and educated in China until the masters level; he obtained his thesis in theoretical physics from the University of Chicago under Edward Teller (sometimes known as the father of the Hydrogen bomb).

This post is a review of The World Treasury of Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics (859 pages) . The book came out a while ago, in 1991. Since science moves on, one might expect that the material is quite dated (the classic advice is to read the latest in science and the oldest in literature). But I think the volume, which is a collection of essays and popular writing (all reprints) on the topics mentioned above, has merits which keep it relevant and valuable even today. For

This post is about the award of the Nobel prize in physics 2025 to John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis. From the announcement ,...

In 2022, I became a minor celebrity among my friends for a week for correctly predicting that Alain Aspect would win the physics Nobel...