Ultrafast laser pioneer Paul Corkum has won the London-based Institute of Physics’ (IOP) highest accolade, the Isaac Newton Medal and Prize, for 2018. The University of Ottawa, Canada, professor - ...
David DiLaura, an emeritus professor at the University of Colorado, was working on his comprehensive bibliography listing every significant scientific volume on optics when he made an unexpected ...
A pristine personal copy of Isaac Newton’s book "Opticks" that was recently found after going missing for a century is going up for auction. While organizing his collection, DiLaura, a professor ...
Pioneering University of Bristol theoretical physicist Sir Michael Berry has been awarded the Isaac Newton Medal and Lecture ...
The theoretical physicist Michael Berry from the University of Bristol has won the 2025 Isaac Newton Medal and Prize for his ...
The unpublished first version of Isaac Newton's Cambridge lectures on optics, 1670-1672; a facsimile of the autograph, now Cambridge University Library MS. Add. 4002, with an introduction by D. T.
TeraView, the Cambridge, UK-based company that has pioneered terahertz technology and solutions, has announced that Professor Sir Michael Pepper, its co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer, has been ...
Sir Isaac Newton once wrote, in what must be one of the most oft-quoted lines in the history of science, "If I have seen further it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants." Well, any of us who ...
British archaeologists recently found the remnants of a 17th-century house where Isaac Newton’s mother lived – not far from the site of his famous apple tree. The National Trust announced in a recent ...