A new book by the husband-and-wife team of Nancy Ellen Abrams and Joel Primack, distinguished professor of physics at UC Santa Cruz, explores the cultural and social implications of the modern ...

Joel R. Primack, a physicist who helped explain how tiny quantum fluctuations at the birth of the universe led to the formation of galaxies, galactic clusters and even larger structures spanning the ...

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has awarded the prestigious 2024 Philip Hauge Abelson Prize to Joel R. Primack, distinguished professor of physics emeritus at the ...

SANTA CRUZ — From catching the attention of J. Robert Oppenheimer to now earning a national award “for his many contributions to the scientific community, the science policy world and society writ ...

Particle physics got boring in the late 1970s. Unfortunately for me, that was not long after I had started out as a theoretical particle physicist. I had been drawn into the field by ...