
Discovery at Fla. lab confirms Hofstadter butterfly
USA TODAY
There are almost certainly some real, practical implications and other sorts of developments. ” — Eric Palm, deputy director of the MagLab. The scientists also worked with graphene, a material that earned its British discoverers the 2010 Nobel Prize ...

Heinrich Rohrer, Nobel Prize-winning physicist, dies at 79
Washington Post
Heinrich Rohrer, a Swiss physicist and one of the two Nobel Prize-winning scientists who helped make possible the modern field of nanotechnology by inventing a microscope that could readily see individual atoms, died May 16. He was 79. The Swiss ...

Five factoids about Tumblr CEO David Karp
Washington Post (blog)
He dropped out of The Bronx High School of Science, a highly regarded school in New York that has produced seven Nobel prize-winning physicists and six Pulitzer winners, calling it “a particularly driven environment.” Karp's mother allowed him to be ...

Swiss Nobel physicist dies at 80
World Radio Switzerland
Swiss Nobel physicist dies at 80. Heinrich Rohrer, one of the fathers of nanotechnology and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, has died. Rohrer, who was 80, passed away at his home in the canton of Schwyz. Rohrer studied at ETH Zurich and then ...