Richardson, a Cornell University professor who shared a Nobel Prize for a key discovery in experimental physics, has died.

WSJ: Cornell physicist and Nobel winner Richardson dies

Athene Donald, Professor of Experimental Physics at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, is one of only five exceptional female scientists from around the globe to receive an award this year.

UNESCO: UK National Commission for UNESCO :: UK scientist named 2009 Laureate For Women In Science for Europe

At one time in the 1930s eight Nobel prizewinners were working in the Cavendish, then the world's leading centre for experimental nuclear physics.

ECONOMIST: Sir Mark Oliphant

He points out that particle physics is an experimental science.

ECONOMIST: The truth is out there. Maybe