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Donald Trump has always believed himself to be an expert at what he calls “nuclear,” due to the fact that his uncle, John Trump, was a physicist who taught at MIT.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026

At that time, theoretical physicist Vincent Meunier predicted that sharply bending graphene could rearrange its electrons and create an electrical response.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026

Ryan Milligan, a solar physicist at Queen's University Belfast in Northern Ireland, has travelled for 12 different eclipses, to places as far-ranging as Siberia, Chile and the Faroe Islands.

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

Not long before McCarthy’s speech, the purported Russian spy Alger Hiss was convicted of perjury and atomic physicist Klaus Fuchs was unmasked as a Russian spy embedded in the Los Alamos atomic bomb laboratory.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

Then again, in 1928, physicist and Nobel Prize winner Max Born told a group of visitors to Gottingen University, “Physics, as we know it, will be over in six months.”

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking

Traditionally, physicists have investigated nuclear structure using relatively low-energy experiments, including measurements of how atomic nuclei rotate and vibrate.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026

MIT physicists have now uncovered new details about how two distinct forms of electron organization can emerge within the same quantum material.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026

Henri Murison, the chief executive of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership, told the BBC: "Eminent physicists have made the case for why this is particularly worrying, because it will lose physics talent across the country."

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

The physicists liked physical models, and economists liked linear models, so machine learning didn’t fit cleanly into either camp and was viewed with suspicion.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026

On the other hand, Kelvin’s discovery of absolute zero told physicists what they couldn’t do.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife