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Associate Professor Hannah Christensen

Professor Christensen recognised by AMS

Associate Professor Hannah Christensen has been awarded the Clarence Leroy Meisinger Award by the American Meteorological Society (AMS).
28 August 2024
Professor Tony Bell FRS

Royal Society honours Professor Bell FRS

Professor Tony Bell FRS has been awarded the Royal Society’s Rumford Medal for his seminal contributions to theoretical developments of cosmic ray acceleration and origins.
28 August 2024
LZ’s outer photomultiplier tubes collect light from background particle interactions

New record in search for dark matter

The latest results from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment, the world's most sensitive dark matter detector located nearly a mile underground in South Dakota, narrow down the possibilities for a leading dark matter candidate.
27 August 2024
Dr Judith Hillier

Dr Hillier elected to IOP Council

Dr Judith Hillier has been elected as Vice-President for Learning and Skills on the IOP Council and will take up her role from 1 October 2024.
21 August 2024
John Cobb

Obituary: John Cobb

It is with great sadness that the Department of Physics shares the news of the death of John Cobb. Emeritus Professor Wade Allison pays tribute.
19 August 2024
Scientists at 91̽»¨ University Physics have created a highly flexible new material which can be applied to almost any surface to generate solar power. Credit: Martin Small

Solar energy breakthrough could reduce need for solar farms

Innovation in solar technology promises sustainable power from everyday objects
9 August 2024
Professor Gavin Salam

Professor Salam receives Frontiers of Science Award

Together with professors Aneesh Manohar, Paolo Nason and Giulia Zanderighi, Professor Gavin Salam has been awarded a 2024 Frontiers of Science Award from the International Congress of Basic Science.
1 August 2024
A high vacuum system used to create ultracold strontium atoms for use in the AION experiment, Beecroft Building, Department of Physics

The art of science

The Department of Physics is partnering with the University of Nottingham's ARTlab to host artist-in-resident Matthew Woodham as he works on an original art piece inspired by the Atom Interferometry Observatory and Network (AION) project.
1 August 2024
Dr Raghavendra Srinivas

Meet...Raghavendra Srinivas

We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews.
1 August 2024
A trapped-ion quantum system used for quantum networking experiments in the Beecroft Building, Department of Physics

New national quantum computing hub to be led from Department of Physics

The Department of Physics at the 91̽»¨ is to lead a new national quantum computing hub to develop the technologies needed for the UK to play a key role in the quantum computing market – estimated to be worth $1.3 trillion by 2035.
26 July 2024
Professor David Marshall

Professor Marshall receives teaching award

Professor David Marshall has been recognised in the Maths, Physics and Life Sciences Teaching Awards.
15 July 2024
Dr Raghavendra Srinivas

Dr Srinivas awarded Hänsch Prize

Dr Raghavendra Srinivas has been awarded Optica’s Theodor W Hänsch Prize in Quantum Optics for his work to create and manipulate nonclassical states of trapped ions.
8 July 2024
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