Though physicists know Maria Goeppert Mayer left her own stamp on history, the U.S. Postal Service recently issued one of its own to commemorate the nuclear physicist.
Often when we hear of someone winning an award for beauty and charm we think of a pageant, but in this case, it is for groundbreaking work in physics. Charm and beauty are properties of quarks, the fundamental constituents of ordinary matter.
ARGONNE, Ill. — Orlando Auciello of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory has been awarded the distinction of Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).