Quantum Mechanics

In this month's "Quantized Column," Quanta Magazine's series in which top researchers explore the process of discovery, Frank Wilczek, Professor (1989–2000) and Member (1977–78) in the School of Natural Sciences and Nobel Laureate in Physics (2004)...

On April 14, 1954, Albert Einstein, one of the Institute's first Faculty members (1933–55), gave the last lecture of his life. Speaking to physics students at Princeton University, he remarked that although quantum mechanics works, “it is difficult...

Steven Weinberg discusses how the development of quantum mechanics in the first decades of the twentieth century came as a shock to many physicists. Today, despite the great successes of quantum mechanics, arguments continue about its meaning, and...

For 80 years, scientists have puzzled over the way galaxies and other cosmic structures appear to gravitate toward something they cannot see. This hypothetical “dark matter” seems to outweigh all visible matter by a startling ratio of five to one...

Hundreds of researchers—including School of Natural Sciences Members Eva Silverstein (1999), Vijay Balasubramanian (2007–08), Brian Greene (1992–93), and Hirosi Ooguri (2015, 1988–89), and School of Mathematics Member Dorit Aharonov (1998–99)—are...