The latest web celeb is a physics professor. Professor Walter Lewin, who teaches an introductory physics course at MIT, has become an internet celebrity thank to his outrageous antics, daredevil ...

Dr. Weiss, who shared the 2017 Nobel Prize in physics with two other scientists for their contributions to creating and building the LIGO, was 92 when he died Aug. 25, MIT announced.

Over four decades at MIT, Walter Lewin got undergraduates excited about physics. Now his lectures are reaching millions of students around the world.