American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fermilab Physicists Find New Matter Antimatter Asymmetry
This complicated yet interesting article describing the discovery of asymmetry between the behavior of matter and antimatter.
Career Cornerstone Center
Sloan Career Cornerstone Center: Profiles of Physicists: Stephen Karis
Presents a brief career profile of Mr. Stephen Karis, a research physicist at Phillips Laboratory, part of the United States Air Force, containing an interview and comments. Can be downloaded in PDF format.
Career Cornerstone Center
Sloan Career Cornerstone Center: Profiles of Physicists: Michelle O'brien
A brief career profile of Ms. Michelle O'Brien, a physicist for the ionizing radiation division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Can be downloaded in PDF format.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Bill Mills, Physicist and Interdisciplinary Programmer
Find out about Bill Mills, and learn about his work in interdisciplinary programming.
Other
Tasmanian Physicist Profiles: Biophysicist
Contains a profile of Dr. Ian Newman, a biophysics researcher at the University of Tasmania. Presents a description of how he became interested in physics, what his work is like, and how his career path progressed.
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Roland Eotvos
Vasarosnamenyi Baro Eotvos Lorand, better known as Roland Eotvos or Lorand Eotvos throughout much of the world, was a Hungarian physicist who is most recognized for his extensive experimental work involving gravity, but who also made...
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Richard Feynman
Theoretical physicist Richard Phillips Feynman greatly simplified the way in which the interactions of particles could be described through his introduction of the diagrams that now bear his name (Feynman diagrams) and was a co-recipient...
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Robert Millikan
Robert Andrews Millikan was a prominent American physicist who made lasting contributions to both pure science and science education. He is particularly well known for his highly accurate determination of the charge of an electron via...
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1957 Presentation Speech: Yang
The Nobel Foundation provides a fascinating speech by O.B. Klein of the Physics Committee. Elegant, erudite, and fully explanatory of the work of Lee and Yang. His description of a physicist on another planet is very insightful. This is...
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: Wolfgang Pauli Biographical
The Nobel E Museum provides biographical information on Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian physicist and discoverer of the exclusion principle.
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Peace Prize 1975
Read about the Soviet nuclear physicist, Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (1921-1989 CE), who received the 1974 Nobel Peace Prize for his "Struggle for human rights, for disarmament, and for cooperation between all nations." This website is...
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley Lab: The Man, His Lab and Legacy
Learn about the life and work of physicist Lawrence Berkeley.
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1939: Ernest Lawrence
This brief entry describes the scientific contributions of physicist Ernest Lawrence.
American Association of Physics Teachers
Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Physics Careers Resource
General information about where physicist work and what they do. Includes facts about physicists in the workforce, physicist profiles and fields, and information targeted specifically at students, parents, and educators.
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Julian Schwinger
Theoretical physicist Julian Schwinger used the mathematical process of renormalization to rid the quantum field theory developed by Paul Dirac of serious incongruities with experimental observations that had nearly prompted the...
Black Past
Black Past: Jackson, Shirley Ann
Interesting encyclopedia article about Shirley Ann Jackson, physicist and university president.
Florida State University
Florida State University: Science, Optics & You: Augustin Jean Fresnel
Biography of Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788-1827), a French physicist best known for his pioneering work in optics.
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Science World: Erwin Schrodinger
ScienceWorld.com offers a brief biography and image of Austrian physicist and inventor of wave mechanics, Erwin Schrodinger.
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Paul Dirac
Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac was an outstanding twentieth century theoretical physicist whose work was fundamental to the development of quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics jointly with...
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Lev Davidovich Landau
While growing up in the Soviet Union, Lev Landau was so far ahead of his classmates that he was ready to begin college at age 13. His parents noticed a particular gift for math in their young son, who was considered a prodigy. It came as...
Famous Scientists
Famous Scientists: Gustav Ludwig Hertz
Find out about Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German experimental physicist and Nobel Prize winner.
Florida State University
Florida State University: Science, Optics & You: Anders Jons Angstrom
Biography of Anders Jonas Angstrom (1814-1874), a Swedish physicist who pioneered the field of spectroscopy. He was also well known for his work in mathematics and astronomy.
Famous Scientists
Famous Scientists: Brian Cox
Learn about the life and work of English pop star-turned-physicist, Brian Cox.
Other
Observatorio Arval: Carl Sagan
This is biographical information, uuotes, a bibliography and links to other resources on the popular American physicist Carl Sagan.