Walter Lewin is an author, an astrophysicist and a professor of physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), who might be most famous for his eccentric lectures (which you can access online ...

An MIT device that makes the world's most precise rulers--with "ticks" only a few hundred billionths of a meter apart--could impact fields from the manufacture of computer chips to space physics. An ...

For the past four minutes, Walter Lewin has been laboring at the chalkboard, bent on conveying a point—or rather, a series of small, swift points, so close together they resemble a perforation. The 76 ...

Hang Su ’23 has always been fascinated by physics and how it helps explain the natural world. Eager to learn as much as she can about how the world works, she hopes to make her own meaningful impact ...