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Robert G. Wheeler (1929-2026)

June 9, 2026
Robert G. Wheeler, a condensed matter physicist and prominent Yale administrator for 40 years, who had a second remarkable career as an expert on Chinese and Japanese...

Yale Physics members of Wright Lab attend DUNE meetings at Sanford Underground Research Facility

June 5, 2026
About 250 physicists and researchers from around the world, including Wright Lab scientists from the group of Karsten Heeger, Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics and Director...
Chiara Mingarelli portrait

Mingarelli awarded Arthur Greer Memorial Prize

June 3, 2026
Chiara Mingarelli, assistant professor of physics, was awarded the  Arthur  Greer  memorial Prize in recognition of her instrumental work launching a new area of research in...

Rice named a Knight-Hennessy Scholar at Stanford University

June 2, 2026
Andrew Rice YC’2019 Physics (Intensive) and Mechanical Engineering double major is one of six Yale alumni who are among 87 scholars from 31 countries recently named Knight-...
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