The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2009 with one half to Charles K. Kao, Standard Telecommunication Laboratories, Harlow, UK, and Chinese ...

The Nobel Prize for Physics has been awarded to Charles K. Kao, Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith for their work in fiber-optics and semiconductors. The Nobel committee Tuesday said the three ...

Imagine a home with cheerful splashes of natural sunlight in every room at once — even the interior ones — all day long. Now imagine a world in which all citizens have access to the very best medical ...

This year's Nobel Prize in Physics will be shared by three scientists who created revolutionary technologies decades ago that have changed our world today. Half of the $1.4 million prize will go to a ...

Over the last few years, the Nobel Prize in Physics has been all over the map. 2006 saw a pair of observational cosmologists honored, while 2007 went to the people who discovered giant ...