Although I have had the great privilege, in the years of my early studies, of coming under the spell of Cambridge and the inspiration of the great English physicists, I fear that it may not be ...

Stephen Hawking was an English theoretical physicist and cosmologist. He is most known for his work on singularities and black holes. Hawking was diagnosed with ALS at 21 years old.

The second Cavendish Professor was Lord Rayleigh, whose measurements of the fundamental quantities of physics are among the most beautiful and accurate experiments ever performed. The third to be ...

The British scientist has been selected to lead the largest particle physics laboratory in the world, Europe’s CERN ...

"If I have seen further, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants" Sir Isaac Newton was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, alchemist, inventor and natural philosopher who is ...

An English physicist and chemist, Faraday’s many experiments greatly contributed towards the better understanding of electromagnetism. For someone who went on to achieve great things in science ...

In 1830, English physicist Michael Faraday confirmed Oersted's theory, and established the principle of electromagnetic induction. In 1864, James Clerk Maxwell, an experimental physics ...