● Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler By Philip Ball University of Chicago Press, 320 pages, $30 In his 1998 play “Copenhagen,” Michael Frayn used the Heisenberg uncertainty principle — a cornerstone of modern physics — as a metaphor for the impossibility of pinning down historical facts when memories…
Israel was admitted as a full member of the prestigious European nuclear physics lab CERN. The CERN Council on Thursday unanimously passed a resolution making Israel the organization’s 21st member state. Israel also is the council’s first non-European member state as well. A formal signing ceremony will be held next month. “This is a very…
The city of Brussels will name part of its famous Atomium monument after François Englert, the Belgian Jew who won the Nobel Prize in physics. A city official told Belgian media Wednesday that Englert, who won the prize the previous day together with Peter Higgs of Britain for their discovery of the Higgs particle, will…
Francois Englert, a Belgian Jewish professor at Tel Aviv University and a Holocaust survivor, won a share the Nobel Prize in physics. Englert and Britain’s Peter Higgs won the prize on Tuesday for predicting the existence of the Higgs boson particle that explains how elementary matter attained the mass to form stars and planets. The…
I appreciate Hillel Halkin’s passionate response to a cartoon that supports the boycott of Israel, promotes anti-Semitism, and advocates a viewpoint that he insists must not be permitted in a Jewish newspaper. Unfortunately, that is not the cartoon I drew. My cartoon pilloried the absurdity and intellectual vacuity of hasbara, the public relations effort by…
Got wheels, Mr. Hawking?
British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, 71, will be visiting Israel in June for the first time in almost seven years. In 2006, Hawking was invited by the British Embassy to tour the country and meet with prominent academics. The renowned author of “A Brief History of Time,” will be participating in the fifth President’s Conference,…
Serge Haroche, a French-Jewish physicist, has won the Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with David Wineland from the United States. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2012 went to the scientists “for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems,” the website of the Nobel Prize said. According to the BBC, the…
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