by Anton Assarsson “Katherine Feese highlights Stephen Hawking’s research on black holes and his contributions to the understanding of the universe’s beginnings as crucial. ‘We physicists are still working with the questions formulated by Albert Einstein a long time ago. To solve these issues, we have relied to some great thinkers – and Stephen Hawking […]
Business Insider Freese was named one of Business Insider’s 15 most amazing women in science today. “Author of “The Cosmic Cocktail,” Katherine Freese was one of the first women undergraduate students to graduate with a physics major from Princeton University.”
Business Insider UK Freese was included in Business Insider UK’s list of 50 scientists from across the globe who are changing the world for the better.
Nature “Katherine Freese, director of Nordita, the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics in Stockholm, says that she and her collaborators have calculated that the excess could be caused by a type of dark matter that features in a less-popular theory of supersymmetry.”
Dagens Nyheter “‘All that we know, our bodies, the air we breathe, the walls around us, the planet and the stars – everything is made of atoms. But the matter of atoms make up only five percent of the universe. We try to find out what the remaining 95 percent are,’ says Katherine Freese, a […]
NY Times “Katherine Freese and Christopher Savage, estimate that cosmic rays zipping through a human body cause more damage in a second than dark matter would in a lifetime. But the effect of dark matter is still strong enough that scientists are considering using DNA or RNA molecules as WIMP detectors.”