Laser pioneer and Nobel laureate Zhores Alferov dies at 88
Russian physicist made breakthrough that paved the way for laser-based technologies
Robert Myers named as new director of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
String theorist will take over from cosmologist Neil Turok to become Canadian institute’s third director
Once a physicist: Will Foxall
Will Foxall is a creative technologist for the South West Creative Technology Network, based at the Watershed in Bristol, UK
Steven Weinberg releases third collection of essays
Matin Durrani reviews Third Thoughts by Steven Weinberg
An anxious descent
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein reviews Anxiety and the Equation: Understanding Boltzmann’s Entropy by Eric Johnson
Quantum optics pioneer Roy Glauber dies at 93
Nobel laureate worked on the Manhattan Project as a teenager
Festive five: Physics World picks its favourite features from 2018
Congratulations to the five authors who've written our favourite feature articles over the last 12 months
‘Father of X-ray astronomy’ Riccardo Giacconi dies at 87
Italian astrophysicist shared the 2002 Nobel Prize for Physics for the discovery of cosmic X-ray sources
Nobel laureate Leon Lederman dies aged 96
US particle physicist co-discovered that neutrinos come in more than one “flavour”
Once a physicist: Noel Bakhtian
Noel Bakhtian is director of the Center for Advanced Energy Studies and a member of the senior leadership team at the US Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory
