Rutgers Physics Student Wins Prestigious Churchill Scholarship for Graduate … NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. – Rutgers University physics student David Kolchmeyer has been awarded the prestigious Churchill Scholarship for graduate study at England's University of Cambridge, one of the oldest universities… Continue Reading
Physics demonstration work bench 1915 Image by Miami U. Libraries – Digital Collections Persistent URL: digital.lib.muohio.edu/u?/snyder,273 Subject (TGM): Physics; Science; Scientific equipment; Classrooms; Interiors; Universities and colleges; From i to u: Searching for the quantum master bit This is a… Continue Reading
Physics 17 Image by zemistor Pitah, Mr. F., and Doug Degenstein at the Physics Pub Particle physicists bemoan a perfect theory Yet in particle physics, smiles turn upside down and presenters shuffle about uncomfortably as they say "as you can… Continue Reading
Physics and fundamental laws: Necessary truth or misleading cacophony? Robert Oppenheimer's greatest contribution to physics was one that he wanted nothing to do with for the rest of his life. In 1939 Oppenheimer and his student Hartland Snyder published a… Continue Reading
Baylor Honors University of Missouri Physics Professor With 0000 Robert … Newswise — WACO, Texas (Jan. 23, 2014) – Baylor University has named Meera Chandrasekhar, Ph.D., professor of physics and astronomy and Curator's Teaching Professor of Physics at the University… Continue Reading
Cam McEvoy driven by physics McEvoy credits his other passion, physics, and his psychologist mother with helping keep his feet on the ground. He began a physics research fellowship in between his four-hours-a-day training commitments as he works towards the… Continue Reading
Wonders of flat physics now seen in 3D In 2007, theoretical physicists at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) in Philadelphia predicted that certain semi-metals — materials with electronic properties that are intermediate between those of metals and those of electrical… Continue Reading
MU physics professor receives 0000 Robert Foster Cherry Award Chandrasekhar, Curators' Professor of Physics and Astronomy at MU, has been named the recipient of the Baylor University Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching. Credit: MU News Bureau Meera Chandrasekhar,… Continue Reading
Marietta College announces 2014 physics events MARIETTA – The Marietta College Physics Department has scheduled six presentations for the spring 2014 Physics Colloquium beginning from noon to 12:50 p.m. Friday. Three students, Laura Carpenter (2014) of Pennsboro, Vance Turnewitsch (2014)… Continue Reading
Physicists track electrons as they tunnel to freedom Every year in the depths of winter, Dutch physicists make a pilgrimage to the south. There, at a sprawling, maze-like hotel, they get together to drink and dis each other's work at… Continue Reading