Maxwell’s equations of electromagnetism and the Euler equation top a poll to find the greatest equations of all time. Robert P Crease discusses the results of his reader survey First among equals – ...

British theoretical physicist Paul Dirac was one of the most significant figures in the early days of quantum physics, who along with Erwin Schrödinger won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1933. But it ...

In It Must Be Beautiful: Great Equations of Modern Science, Graham Farmelo assembled and edited essays on 11 great equations of the 20th century. Six are from physics: E = hf, E = mc 2, Einstein’s ...

Albert Einstein’s simple yet powerful equation revolutionized physics by connecting the mass of an object with its energy for the first time. It is perhaps the most famous equation in the world, and ...

Want to understand all the references in a Big Bang Theory episode, the discovery on this day in 1926 is the secret to it all. What do endless episodes of The Big Bang Theory, Doctor Who, Futurama, ...