Physics In History

N. David Mermin: A Physicist’s Perspective

Some offbeat approaches to traditional physics concepts

Shut up and Calculate!

Who coined the term and what does it actually mean?

A Letter to Freeman Dyson On His 100th Birth Anniversary

One of the greatest intellectual giants of…

How Mendeleev’s Dream Helped Him Invent the Periodic Table

1939: Einstein’s Letter to Gandhi on his 70th Birthday

“Generations to come, it may be, will scarce…

A Tribute To Richard Feynman On His 105th Birthday

“He painted physics in its purest forms”

Albert Einstein on the Importance of Mathematics

“Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of…