American physicist Steven Weinberg died on July 23, aged 88 at the University of Texas, Austin. Weinberg won the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physics for his theoretical contributions unlocking the mysteries of some tiny particles and their interaction (electromagnetic) to the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics. He was one of the key intellectual leaders […]
Dr Joseph Needham (1900-1995) was a brilliant British biochemist who had obtained a doctorate from Cambridge University in 1925, specializing in embryology and morphogenesis. Later, Dr. Needham developed an interest in China, and after visiting that country several times, he wrote his mammoth book Science and Civilization in China in 24 volumes (see Simon Winchester’s […]
When Giordano Bruno proposed his cosmological theory of an infinite Universe with many worlds, he was castigated by academics and theologians alike and was eventually burnt at the stake by the Catholic Church. Copernicus and Galileo, too, were persecuted for proposing the heliocentric model of the Universe, while countless women were burned and drowned after […]