The American Physical Society awarded former UC Santa Cruz physicist Michael Riordan on October 15 with its Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics, citing his “important contributions to the ...

Introduction / Jed Z. Buchwald and Robert Fox -- pt. I. Physics and the new science. Was there a scientific revolution? / John L. Heilbron ; Galileo's mechanics of natural motion and projectiles / N.M ...

In the 1960s, a group of physicists and historians began a massive project meant to catalogue and record the history of quantum physics. It was called Sources for History of Quantum Physics (SHQP). As ...

New Haven, Conn. -- The first annual Abraham Pais Award for the History of Physics was presented to Martin J. Klein, Eugene Higgins Professor Emeritus of Physics and the History of Science at Yale ...

After Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), then celebrating its 100th anniversary, issued a statement condemning the war. It noted its ...