Eryn Brown

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Eryn Brown

Richard Garwin, science adviser to presidents, dies at 97 (washingtonpost.com) Richard Garwin, science adviser to presidents, dies at 97 By Eryn Brown 2025051416564700 Richard Garwin, an American physicist who made a seminal contribution to the development of the hydrogen bomb, worked on early technologies that went into the development of MRIs and touch screens, and became a widely esteemed science adviser to presidents, died May 13 at his home in Scarsdale, New York. He was 97. His son,...

Apr 11, 2024 | pressherald.com | Eryn Brown

Peter Higgs, a British physicist and Nobel Prize winner whose musings on the origins of mass launched a nearly five-decade, multibillion-dollar search for a subatomic particle – later known as the Higgs boson – that was said to hold the keys to understanding the nature of the universe, died Monday at his home in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was 94. The University of Edinburgh announced his death in a statement but did not cite a cause.

Apr 10, 2024 | tech.sme.sk | Eryn Brown

Fyzik zomrel vo veku 94 rokov. Britský teoretický fyzik Peter Higgs. (Zdroj: SITA/AP)Text vyšiel pôvodne na webe denníka The Washington Post. Peter Higgs, britský fyzik a nositeľ Nobelovej ceny, zomrel 8. apríla vo svojom dome v škótskom Edinburghu. Mal 94 rokov. Jeho úvahy o pôvode hmotnosti odštartovali takmer polstoročia trvajúce pátranie po subatomárnej častici - neskôr známej ako Higgsov bozón -, o ktorej sa hovorilo, že je kľúčom k pochopeniu podstaty vesmíru.

Apr 9, 2024 | sfgate.com | Eryn Brown

Peter Higgs, a British physicist and Nobel Prize winner whose musings on the origins of mass launched a nearly five-decade, multibillion-dollar search for a subatomic particle - later known as the Higgs boson - that was said to hold the keys to understanding the nature of the universe, died April 8 at his home in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was 94. The University of Edinburgh announced his death in a statement but did not cite a cause.

Apr 9, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Eryn Brown

Peter Higgs, a British physicist and Nobel Prize-winner whose musings on the origins of mass launched a nearly five-decade, multibillion-dollar search for a subatomic particle — later known as the Higgs boson — that was said to hold the keys to understanding the nature of the universe, died April 8. He was 94. His death was announced in a statement by the University of Edinburgh, which said he died at home but did not say where he was living. The statement did not give a specific cause.