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April 29, 2025
We are excited to share that Professor David Hertzog has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. The National Academy of Sciences announced today the election of 120 members and 30 international members in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Congratulations to Professor Hertzog on this well-deserved honor.”
April 8, 2025
The Dark Universe Science Center was the sole U.S. institute selected for a Simons Targeted Institute Grant this year. The grant, led by PI Marilena Loverde and Co-PIs Masha Baryakhtar, Isabel Garcia Garcia, Matt McQuinn, and Miguel Morales, will... Read more
February 10, 2025
Xiaodong Xu, professor of physics in the College of Arts & Sciences and of material sciences and engineering in the College of Engineering, was awarded the NAS Award for Scientific Discovery. The award, presented every two years, recognizes an accomplishment or discovery in basic research within the previous five years that is expected to have a significant impact on... Read more
October 15, 2024
Congratulations to Eric Adelberger for winning the 2025 Einstein Prize from the American Physical Society.
Emeritus Professor Adelberger has been awarded the 2025 Einstein Prize in Gravitational Physics for ”outstanding contributions to experimental gravity using precision torsion-balance measurements, which have profound implications for fundamental physics.”https://www.... Read more
October 9, 2024
Congratulations to David Baker (Professor in Biochemistry and Adjunct Professor of Physics) for winning the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry!
Professor Baker shares the Chemistry Nobel Prize for protein design. From the Nobel Press release “The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 is about proteins, life’s ingenious chemical tools. David Baker has succeeded with the almost impossible feat of building entirely new kinds of proteins.”
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September 24, 2024
We are currently searching for a tenure track Assistant Professor in experimental atomic, molecular, and optical (AMO) physics. The successful candidate will expand our existing AMO research efforts with neutral atoms and trapped ions, and will be welcomed into a vibrant campus-wide quantum research community with a variety of synergistic opportunities for collaboration. For more information and/or to apply for the position, please visit ... Read more
September 11, 2024
Nominations are open for the University of Washington Dehmelt and Thouless Postdoctoral Fellowships for outstanding early career researchers. The nomination deadline for 2025 Fellows is September 22, 2024. For more information, see: https://phys.washington.edu/postdoctoral-fellowship-programs
April 3, 2024
David Kaplan is on a quest to straighten out chirality, or “handedness,” in particle physics. A theorist at the University of Washington, Seattle, Kaplan has been wrestling with chirality conundrums for over 30 years. The main problem he has been working on is how to place chiral particles, such as left-handed electrons or right-handed antineutrinos, on a discrete space-time, or “lattice.” That may sound like a minor concern, but without a solution to this problem the weak interaction—and by... Read more
January 11, 2024
After a hiatus of six years, 2023 saw the resumption of the Summer Institute in Physics and Physical Science for in-service high school teachers. This four-week program, led by Associate Teaching Professor Donna Messina, features a semi-Socratic approach known as Physics by Inquiry and seeks to give teachers both improved understanding of physics and experience with inquiry-based instruction. A generous gift from the family of Lillian McDermott enabled the resumption of this summer workshop.... Read more
November 1, 2023
Emeritus Professor Leslie J. Rosenberg has been awarded the 2024 W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics from the American Physical Society. This award recognizes Prof. Rosenberg “For leading the synthesis of precision microwave cavity techniques, superconducting quantum sensing, and cryogenic technology into the modern axion haloscope, and for the subsequent demonstration of experimental sensitivity to high-priority models of axions as dark matter."
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