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...
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...
A four-year, $1.2 million award from the W.M. Keck Foundation of Los Angeles will establish the grant-funded W.M. Keck Foundation Center for Quantum Information Physics at...