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February 27, 2003
The Gibbs Symposium 2003 celebrates the centenary of the publication of Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics, held February 28, 2003. Speakers were: Ole Knudsen,...
November 2, 2002
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-...
November 1, 2002
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...
John B. Fenn at his Yale laboratory in 1987
October 19, 2002
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...
September 30, 2002
In the spring of 2002, the Department of Physics began a review of its entire undergraduate program. A faculty Committee On the Undergraduate Program (COUP) was established...