Composite Hubble Space Telescope Image. Meg Urry.
Composite Hubble Space Telescope Image. Meg Urry.
The electron density for nanowires of silicon. Ismail-Beigi .
The electron density for nanowires of silicon. Ismail-Beigi .
Atomic positions color coded with their relation to the wire. Ismail-Beigi.
Atomic positions color coded with their relation to the wire. Ismail-Beigi.
Composite image numerical solutions in two dielectric cavities. Stone.
Composite image numerical solutions in two dielectric cavities. Stone.

July 2011

Charles Ahn and Charles Bailyn elected to the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering

Date: 
Thu, 07/21/2011

Charles Ahn (William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Applied Physics and Physics) and Charles Bailyn (A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor of Astronomy and Physics) among eleven Yale Faculty members elected to the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering. See the complete article in the Yale Daily Bulletin.

Asteroid named in honor of Michele Dufault (1988-2011)

Michele Dufault (1988-2011)
Date: 
Tue, 07/26/2011

Asteroid (15338) Dufault = 1994 AZ4 is official, published in the 2011 July 15 batch of Minor Planet Circulars.  It appears as follows on MPC 75548:

(15338) Dufault = 1994 AZ4

      Discovered 1994 Jan.