Read article: Ask me anything: Donna Strickland – ‘I wouldn’t have wanted to know that I would win a Nobel prize’
Donna Strickland shared the 2018 Nobel Prize for Physics for her work developing the technique of “chirped pulse amplification”
Read article: A most improbable physicist: how Hakeem Oluseyi survived a troubled early life and went on to succeed in physics
David Appell reviews A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars by Hakeem Oluseyi and Joshua Horwitz
Read article: Credit where it’s due: why not nominate yourself or a colleague for an Institute of Physics award?
Applications are open until 14 February 2022
Read article: Meet the technosignature researcher on the lookout for exo-civilizations
Sofia Sheikh is one of a handful of postdoctoral researchers who have specialized in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence
Read article: Webb, Stark and Schrödinger: how physics memorializes controversial figures
Naming phenomena after discoverers is traditional, but not necessarily permanent, says Matin Durrani
Read article: A quiz on the life of Stephen Hawking – how much do you know about the famous physicist?
Laura Hiscott brings you a quiz about the human side of this cultural icon and national treasure
Read article: Ask me anything: Farai Mazhandu – ‘I find it fulfilling to support and inspire others, and to make seemingly complicated subjects exciting’
Farai Mazhandu is chief executive and co-founder of Bayete Quantum Technologies, which seeks to use quantum tech to solve problems for people in Africa
Read article: Quantum physicist David Deutsch bags Isaac Newton Medal and Prize
Deutsch’s work established quantum computation's fundamental idea, which is now known as the quantum bit, or “qubit”
Read article: How Vera Rubin broke barriers and convinced the astronomy community that dark matter exists
Emma Chapman reviews Bright Galaxies, Dark Matter, and Beyond: the Life of Astronomer Vera Rubin by Ashley Jean Yeager
Read article: Why Nobel laureates love to leave the herd: find out in the November 2021 issue of Physics World magazine
Why Nobel-prize-winning physicists can't resisting trying their hands at new fields
