The most beautiful experiment in physics, according to a poll of Physics World readers, is the interference of single electrons in a Young’s double slit. Robert P Crease reports Simply beautiful – the ...

WHILE today’s particle colliders and genome projects cost millions, and dozens of names appear on scientific papers, George Johnson gazes back to the ideal of earlier centuries: a gentleman alone in ...

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He and a colleague proved a theory advanced by the Nobel Prize winners James Watson and Francis Crick, who discovered DNA’s helical structure. By Delthia Ricks Franklin W. Stahl, a molecular biologist ...