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Welcome to the Yale Physics Department, a center of research and training, in which our vibrant community works together with each other, and with collaborators across Yale’s campus, the country, and the world to answer fundamental scientific questions that are pushing the frontiers of our current understanding of the universe.

News

May 13, 2026
Yale College juniors John Cho,  Physics (Intensive) and History double major, and Max Colomer, Physics (Intensive)  major, have received Science Undergraduate  Laboratory...
Ingrid Rodríguez Vila
May 11, 2026
Ingrid Rodríguez Vila, YC2026 Physics and Philosophy double major, receives the Yale Daily News’  Wallace Prize 2nd place in fiction for her story, “San Sebastián”. The...
Paul Fleury | Photo courtesy of Yale Engineering
May 11, 2026
Paul Fleury, a pioneering engineer and physicist whose work helped shape modern communications and materials science, and who served as dean of the Yale faculty of...
May 11, 2026
The threads connecting Asa Xiao’s many passions — mathematics, filmmaking, physics, theater, psychiatry, fine art — are things that can’t be seen. Xiao, a graduating senior...