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Yale Society of Physics Students recognized as an Outstanding SPS Chapter

January 5, 2022
The Yale University chapter of the Society of Physics Students (SPS) has won an Outstanding Chapter Award from the SPS National Office. This is the second time the chapter...
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Brooke Russell featured in L’Oreal USA For Women in Science Fellows video, “We Need You in STEM”

December 20, 2021
Brooke Russell, Yale Physics Ph.D. ‘20, and an alum of Yale’s Wright Lab, has been featured in a brief video called “We Need You in STEM,” which introduces her and the other...
A new study theorizes that primordial black holes formed after the Big Bang (the far left panel) constitute all dark matter in the universe. At early epochs they cluster and seed the formation of early galaxies and then eventually grow by feeding off gas and merging with other black holes to create the supermassive black holes seen at the center of galaxies like our own Milky Way today. (Credit: Yale and ESA)

Black holes and dark matter — are they one and the same?

December 17, 2021
By Fred Mamoun Primordial black holes created in the first instants after the Big Bang — tiny ones smaller than the head of a pin and supermassive ones covering billions of...

Mueller joins Yale Physics as a visiting professor

December 17, 2021
Wright Lab and Yale Physics welcome Berndt Mueller as a visiting professor for the Spring 2022 semester. Mueller is the J.B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Physics at...
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J. Willard Gibbs's 1878 paper recognized by the American Chemical Society

December 15, 2021
Yale to receive 2021 American Chemical Society Citation for Chemical Breakthrough Award for Gibbs’ explanation of the laws of thermodynamics Yale University has been selected...