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Ryan Milligan, a solar physicist at Queen's University Belfast in Northern Ireland, has travelled for 12 different eclipses, to places as far-ranging as Siberia, Chile and the Faroe Islands.

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

Not long before McCarthy’s speech, the purported Russian spy Alger Hiss was convicted of perjury and atomic physicist Klaus Fuchs was unmasked as a Russian spy embedded in the Los Alamos atomic bomb laboratory.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

In December 1942, physicist Enrico Fermi set off humanity’s first nuclear chain reaction, in a squash court at the University of Chicago.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

"One of them was named after a famous Indian physicist, so I would say I'm not racist."

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

For most of last year, Roli was in scientific competition with Ahana Patel, whose dad is a physicist at NASA.

From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina

Meanwhile, at the Ron Cooke Hub at the University of York, physicists gathered to view the eclipse through five telescopes set up to see the Sun safely.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

Henri Murison, the chief executive of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership, told the BBC: "Eminent physicists have made the case for why this is particularly worrying, because it will lose physics talent across the country."

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

The physicists liked physical models, and economists liked linear models, so machine learning didn’t fit cleanly into either camp and was viewed with suspicion.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026

Materials theoretical physicists, geologists, and materials engineers are working together to identify the most sustainable route from raw mineral deposits to finished products.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026

Real gravitons make up what classical physicists would call gravitational waves, which are very weak—and so difficult to detect that they have not yet been observed.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking