Condensed concepts

Rudolph Marcus died last week. He was 102. There is a nice obituary in The New York Times . He was best known for his theory of electron tra...

I recently learnt that Rodney Baxter died earlier this year. He was adept at finding exact solutions to two-dimensional lattice models in st...

  John Goodenough  was an amazing scientist. He made important contributions to our understanding of strongly correlated electron materials,...

I was very sad to hear last month that Tom McLeish died of cancer. He was an extraordinary person and scientist. Tom can been characterised...

I was very sad when last week I learned of the death of Anthony Jacko, a former member of the Condensed Matter Theory group at UQ. He was on...

I was sorry to hear that Sir John Houghton died on April 15, from complications associated with coronavirus. There is a nice obituary in The...

Phil Anderson died two weeks ago. There have been many obituaries, including at The New York Times , Not Even Wrong  (Peter Woit), and Nanos...

I was sad to hear last week of the death of John Wilkins . He was a mentor to a whole generation of condensed matter physicists and a genero...

Bob Schrieffer died last month, as reported in a New York Times obituary. Obviously, Schrieffer's biggest scientific contribution was ...

I was sad to hear last week that Professor  Noel Hush died at age 94. Noel [also known as Prof.] was a pioneer in theoretical chemistry and ...

I learnt today that David Pines died last week. He was a pioneer in quantum many-body theory, applying it not just to solid state physics bu...

I was very sad to learn last week of the tragic death of Seth Olsen in an accident. He was a former collaborator and colleague at UQ. Seth...

The New York Times has an obituary for Ahmed Zewail  who died this week. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work that used ultrafa...

The New York Times has a nice obituary  Michael W. Davidson, a Success in Microscopes and Neckwear, Dies at 65 I did not know Davidson per...

Yoichuro Nambu died earlier this month, and there was an obituary in the New York Times yesterday. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in...

John Nash and his wife, Alicia, tragically died in a car crash on the weekend. There is a  New York Times obituary  He was a brilliant young...

He gives away his whole salary to a not-for-profit. He is reluctant to go into administration because he has to give up teaching. He serve...

I was saddened to hear of the recent sudden death of Jim Brooks. He is the experimentalist who arguably has had the biggest impact on me sc...

I just learned that Arthur Wightman died earlier this year. He is probably best known for axioms of quantum field theory, super-selection ru...

Ken Wilson died last saturday. He was arguably one of the most important theoretical physicists of the second half of the twentieth century...