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News: Honors and Awards
Three UW Physics professors are the recipients of the 2021 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
September 10, 2020
2021 Breakthrough Prize Winners Announced: Researcher Who Developed Protein Design Technology Awarded $3 Million
September 10, 2020
Protein design and physics earn UW professors a pair of prestigious Breakthrough Prizes
September 10, 2020
Four UW professors win 2021 Breakthrough Prize — so-called ‘Oscars of Science’
September 10, 2020
UW receives NSF funds for investment in an interdisciplinary quantum future
August 31, 2020
Matthew Yankowitz receives prestigious YIP award
July 10, 2020
Larry McLerran's Paper Tops Physical Review D 50th Anniversary Milestones
July 9, 2020
Three UW students selected as 2020 Goldwater Scholars
March 30, 2020
Three UW students selected as 2020 Goldwater Scholars
March 30, 2020
Breakthrough Foundation honors UW researcher studying ‘exotic’ states of matter
September 10, 2019
Jiun-Haw Chu & other UW professors to receive 2019 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
July 10, 2019
Two UW students honored by Goldwater Foundation
May 7, 2019
UW physicist Jiun-Haw Chu named Packard Fellow for research on quantum materials
November 6, 2018
UW physicist named Packard Fellow
October 26, 2018
Zohreh Davoudi wins 2018 Wilson Prize
September 27, 2018
NSF to fund new $25M software institute to enable discoveries in high-energy physics
September 26, 2018
Designing and Growing Quantum Materials for Energy and Information Technology
April 12, 2018
A Quantum Leap
March 8, 2018
Renaissance Art to Theoretical Physics
June 6, 2017
In Stockholm ceremony, UW professor emeritus David Thouless receives Nobel Physics Prize
December 14, 2016
For Physics, Another Nobel
November 2, 2016
Bagels and buns: The research that won the 2016 Nobel Prize for Physics explained
October 5, 2016
Why 'exotic matter' matters — and won the Nobel Prize in Physics
October 4, 2016
David Thouless Wins Nobel Prize in Physics
October 4, 2016
Three scientists working in the United States awarded Nobel Prize in Physics
October 4, 2016
Professors Fu and Majumdar Receive $2 Million NSF EFRI Grant to Advance Secure Communicatons Research
August 8, 2016
Four UW scientists awarded Sloan Fellowships for early-career research
February 24, 2016
UW-based "Project 8" experiment recognized as a top ten "Breakthrough of the Year"
December 22, 2015
After Nobel win, neutrino endeavors snag Breakthrough Prize in Physics
November 20, 2015
UW physicists celebrate contribution to Nobel-winning neutrino discoveries
October 12, 2015
Lillian McDermott wins Award for Excellence (University Faculty Lecture Award)
April 18, 2014
Lillian C. McDermott awarded the 2013 Melba Newell Phillips Medal by the American Assocation of Physics Teachers (AAPT)
February 27, 2013
We are pleased to learn that David Wineland has won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics
October 9, 2012
26 from UW selected for state Academy of Sciences, includes Ann Nelson, James Bardeen and Blayne Heckel
August 3, 2012
Two Physics Department faculty members elected to the National Academy of Sciences
June 25, 2012
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