Professor Vernon W. Hughes, Sterling Professor Emeritus at Yale University, and elementary particle physicist, died on March 25, 2003.
Professor Hughes’ career involved a...
The Gibbs Symposium 2003 celebrates the centenary of the publication of Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics, held February 28, 2003. Speakers were:
Ole Knudsen,...
Ramamurti Shankar, chair of the physics department, faced a daunting challenge when he was invited by Graduate School Dean Susan Hockfield to explain quantum theory to non-...
Professor Pierre Hohenberg wins the 2003 Lars Onsager Prize from the American Physical Society. His citation reads, “For contributions to a wide range of topics in...
Retired Yale professor and Yale alumnus John B. Fenn was awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize in chemistry for research he conducted during his 20-year tenure at Yale.
In addition to...
