Yang, the first physicist to be honored with the five-year-old award, will receive a gold medal in addition to the cash prize. The size of the award makes it the "richest American prize in science," ...

While it’s impossible to say with any certainty, American physicist Edwin C. May recent gave his expert opinion on the matter during an appearance on the Shawn Ryan Show podcast. According to h ...

TAIPEI--Chinese-American physicist Tsung-Dao Lee, who in 1957 became the second-youngest scientist to receive a Nobel Prize, died Sunday at his home in San Francisco at age 97, according to a ...

4. Ernest O. Lawrence American physicist Ernest O. Lawrence first visited Tuxedo Park in 1936. Just 35 years old, the Berkeley professor had already earned great acclaim with the invention of the ...