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Chien-Shiung Wu in profile, sitting at a desk with a panel of knobs and dials in front of her.

Chien-Shiung Wu was one of the most influential experimental physicists of the 20th century. Although she was described as the "Chinese Marie Curie,"...

An insatiable curiosity about the way things work led William Phillips to a career in physics and, eventually, to groundbreaking research on the atom...

When he was 10 years old, Charles Townes was like most kids; he knew exactly what he wanted for Christmas. But his dream gift was a bit unconventional...

At the University of Wisconsin during 1965-1967, a team led by particle physicist Ednor Rowe built a machine designed to analyze what goes on inside...