Heinrich Rohrer, who shared the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing a microscope that made it possible to see individual atoms and move them around, an achievement that led to vastly faster computing and ... Read more
Dr. Christian de Duve, a Belgian biochemist whose discoveries about the internal workings of cells shed light on genetic disorders like Tay-Sachs disease and earned him a Nobel Prize in 1974, died at his home ... Read more
Dr. François Jacob, a French war hero whose combat wounds forced him to change his career paths from surgeon to scientist, a pursuit that led to a Nobel Prize in 1965 for his role in discovering how ... Read more
Dr. François Jacob, a French war hero whose combat wounds forced him to change his career paths from surgeon to scientist, a pursuit that led to a Nobel Prize in 1965 for his role in discovering how ... Read more
Dr. François Jacob, a French war hero whose combat wounds forced him to change his career paths from surgeon to scientist, a pursuit that led to a Nobel Prize in 1965 for his role in discovering how ... Read more
PERFORMANCE DNA Story and AstroDance. City University of New York. 365 Fifth Avenue. April 23 and 26. 6:30 p.m. Free. CUNY’s Science and the Arts series offers a pair of unusual ... Read more
Robert G. Edwards, who won a Nobel Prize in 2010 for developing in vitro fertilization, which has enabled infertile couples to bring millions of children into the world and women to have babies even after ... Read more
“WE need some gray hair” once referred to needing someone with more experience. But I haven’t heard that expression in a very long time. In fact, many companies are intentionally ... Read more
Donald A. Glaser, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1960 for inventing, at 25, an ingenious device called the bubble chamber to trace the paths of subatomic particles, died on Thursday at his home in ... Read more
Robert C. Richardson, who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics for coaxing a rare form of helium into a bizarre liquid state that had never been seen before, died on Tuesday in Ithaca, N.Y. He was 75. ... Read more