In 1841, Sir William Henry Fox Talbot secured a patent for his Calotype process. The following year, his groundbreaking work earned him the esteemed Rumford Medal from the Royal Society. In 1844, he ...

receiving the Rumford Medal for his work on polarization. In August 1811, François Arago reported that if a thin plate of mica was viewed against a white polarized Pierre Laval Pierre Jean Marie Laval ...

Printed label seen through a doubly-refracting calcite crystal and a modern polarizing filter (rotated to show the different polarizations of the two images) Malus died in February 1812, at the age of ...

Jordan Chiles addressed being stripped of her Olympics bronze medal at the Forbes Power Women’s Summit on Wednesday. Speaking with Moira Forbes, Chiles said that it wasn’t just the medal ...

Living Medal of Honor recipients could get a significant boost in their pensions under a bill recently introduced in the Senate. Under the Monetary Enhancement for Distinguished Active Legends ...

Washington — A group of Black women central to NASA's success during the space race and known as the "Hidden Figures" were honored Wednesday in a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony on Capitol Hill.

American gymnast Jordan Chiles beamed on Aug. 8 during the “Today” show as she showed off the floor exercise bronze medal she had won three days before at the 2024 Paris Olympics. On Wednesday ...

WASHINGTON -- Billie Jean King will become the first individual women's athlete to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal. Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania and Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey ...