While searching through the numerous boxes and files of documents containing the Alvin Weinberg papers stored at the Children's Museum of Oak Ridge, Tim Gawne came across a seven-page speech that ...

First my apologies to readers for including the wrong photograph of Charles Thomas last week. The Charles Thomas pictured with the article is still very much alive and called to tell us he appreciated ...

So asks many an undergraduate upon reading the syllabus of an introductory astronomy course. Schadenfreude aside, it’s actually not a bad question. In 1959, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Eugene Wigner ...

In 1934, Eugene Wigner, a pioneer of quantum mechanics, theorized a strange kind of matter — a crystal made from electrons. The idea was simple; proving it wasn’t. Physicists tried many tricks over ...

In 1934, physicist Eugene Wigner made a theoretical prediction based on quantum mechanics that for 87 years went unseen. The theory suggested how a metal that normally conducts electricity could turn ...