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Stories about: physicist

Physicists Prefer Mac OS X Apple is featuring an article on one of the physicists working at the Large Hadron Collider, who just so happens to be a huge Mac fan. According to Brian Cox, any physicist will tell you that the Mac is the way to go, especially if you need to run both new apps and old UNIX programs. According to the piece currently... 28 December 2008 17:01 GMT Stephen Hawking Will Experience Weightlessness for the First Time Stephen William Hawking, the brilliant theoretical physicist, is about to experience weightlessness for a first period of 25 seconds today, although not in actual space, but in a simulated "free-fall" of a plane. The 65-year-old Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge is known for his contributions t... 26 April 2007 08:48 GMT