Physics News Articles

• Joseph Egan, Lawyer Who Fought Nuclear Waste Site, Is Dead at 53 (New York Times)
  Mr. Egan, a nuclear engineer-turned-lawyer, led Nevada?s legal campaign to block a nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain.



• Education as peripatetic trip: From physics to a cave to art (The Oregonian)
  Meagan Nuss says she never could have predicted how her years at Lewis & Clark College would reshape her or how she would influence the college. She spent two days alone in a cave in India. She fought wildfires one summer in Arizona.



• Cambridge scientist takes Canada to cutting edge of physics theory (The Globe and Mail)
  RIM co-founder stages a coup in persuading award-winning researcher to head institute



• DR. NEIL TUROK APPOINTED EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF PERIMETER INSTITUTE (Bernama via Yahoo! Malaysia News)
  ATTENTION EDITOR, GENERAL DESK WATERLOO, May 12 /CNW-AsiaNet/ -- The Board Of Directors Of Canada's Perimeter Institute For Theoretical Physics (PI) Is Pleased To Announce The Appointment Of Dr.



• Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 5th Nov 2005 17:48 UTC (OS News)
  ArsTechnica looks back : "In November of 1990, Tim Berners-Lee, a researcher at Europe's CERN Particle physics Laboratory, invented the very first web server and web browser.