Stories by Scott Bembenek

Scott Bembenek has a PhD in theoretical chemical physics, was a National Research Council Fellow and works as a computational chemist doing drug discovery research. He is also the author of The Cosmic Machine: The Science That Runs Our Universe and the Story Behind It. @sbembenek18.

Physics

Einstein and the Quantum

He helped invent the concept, but struggled until his death with the idea of a probabilistic universe

March 27, 2018 — Scott Bembenek

Physics

Honoring a Pioneering Woman in Physics

Lise Meitner solved the problem of nuclear fission—and although she never got the Nobel, she is the only woman outside of mythology to have an element named after her alone

August 29, 2017 — Scott Bembenek