Professor Rob Phillips celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Feynman Lectures on Physics with article in Nature

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On January 1, 2014, a new open-access policy for faculty's scholarly writings will take effect.

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Ellen D. Williams has been nominated by President Obama to serve as the next director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), the agency tasked with promoting and funding research and development of advanced energy technologies.

The Fundamental Physics Prize Foundation today announced that Joseph Polchinski (BS ’75), physics professor at the University of Santa Barbara, and John H. Schwarz, the Harold Brown Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech, as recipients of the 2014 Physics Frontiers Prize.

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Richard H. Scheller was awarded the 2013 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award, along with Thomas C. Südhof, for discoveries related to rapid neurotransmitter release, a process that helps drive intercellular communications within the brain. 

Dr. Rosenbaum, 58, is currently the John T. Wilson Distinguished Service Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago, where he has served as the university's provost for the past seven years. More »

Martin Karplus was one of three scientists awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for pioneering work on computer programs that simulate complex chemical processes and have revolutionized research in areas from drug discovery to solar energy.

T.E. Schlesinger, a distinguished engineering researcher, teacher and veteran leader of one of the top academic departments in his field, has been appointed dean of the Whiting School of Engineering at The Johns Hopkins University.

For the third year in a row, the California Institute of Technology has been rated the world's number one university in the Times Higher Education global ranking of the top 200 universities. More » 

A paleobotanist, Boyce's studies of both extinct and living plants across multiple timescales are establishing direct links between ancient remains and present-day ecosystems. More »

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Voyager 1 has entered interstellar space. The NASA spacecraft has traveled farther than anyone, or anything, in history. Now Voyager 1 is in the space between the stars. Read more »

Murray was at the helm of JPL from 1976 to 1982, during a very busy time for planetary exploration - when the Viking spacecraft landed on Mars, and Voyager 1 and 2 were launched and flew by Jupiter and Saturn.

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And if so what is it? Read from the latest issue of E&S online.

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Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, and the Palomar Observatory 
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This year we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the discovery of quasars, and honor Maarten Schmidt, whose insight into the nature of quasar spectra was a decisive milestone in the rise of this new field of research, in addition to his continued contributions ever since.  

C. Gordon Fullerton, who compiled a distinguished career as a NASA astronaut, research pilot and Air Force test pilot spanning almost 50 years, died Aug. 21. He was 76. Read More »

The astrophysicist, former president of Purdue, and 2007 Distinguished Alumnae has been nominated by President Obama to head the US National Science Foundation. 

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Physics visionary Kenneth G. Wilson, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Physics, died at the age of 77 on June 15 in Maine of complications following a lymphoma.

“Ken Wilson was one of a very small number of physicists who changed the way we all think, not just about specific phenomena, but about a vast range of different phenomena,” said Steven Weinberg, a fellow physics Nobel Laureate.