Who Won the 2005
Nobel Prize Physics

Magnetic Field Misbehavior in Solar Flares
Science Daily (press release)
The flux-freezing theorem was developed 70 years ago by Hannes Alfvén, who later won a Nobel Prize in physics for closely related work. His principle states that magnetic lines of force are carried along in a moving fluid like strands of thread cast ...

New Method for Detecting Cosmic Gravitational Waves
Space Ref (press release)
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 ...

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 ...

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 ...