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Swiss Nobel physicist dies at 80
World Radio Switzerland
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 worked for the IBM Research Lab in ...

New method proposed for detecting gravitational waves from ends of universe
Space Daily
While indirect evidence for gravity waves was obtained by studying the changing orbital period of a neutron star binary, resulting in the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics, gravity waves have yet to be directly observed. "Directly detecting gravitational ...

Stony Brook Gets $1M Gift to Establish Endowed Physics and Astronomy Chair
Patch.com
The Yang Chen Ning – Deng Wei Endowed Chair in Physics and Astronomy, made possible by the gift from Dr. Deng Wei, honors C.N. Yang, who won a Nobel prize in 1957, joined the Stony Brook University faculty in 1966, and established what would ...

Dr. Deng Wei Donates $1M for Endowed Chair in Physics & Astronomy at Stony ...
Newswise (press release)
Introduced to President Stanley in Beijing in March, Dr. Deng made the gift to honor Dr. C.N. Yang, who, in the years after he received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1957, joined the Stony Brook University faculty in 1966 as its Einstein Professor ...