University of Bristol physics professor Sir Michael Berry visited the University of Wisconsin on Monday to for a seminar on geometric phase. The seminar was part of the Chemistry Department’s Willard ...

Many properties of the world's most advanced materials are beyond the reach of quantitative modeling. Understanding them also ...

In a ceremony welcoming new faculty in early September, President Sarah Willie-LeBreton noted that “Smithies—as our students ...

But Luis Jauregui’s work, which might power quantum computers needed for long-range space exploration, also shows how basic ...

This series of short explainer films with Professor Brian Cox comprises six clips focused on forces, speed and motion. Each ...

Professor of Physics Roger Tobin, chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, is this year's winner of the Lillian and Joseph Leibner Award for Distinguished Teaching and Advising, recognizing ...

George Fitzgerald Smoot III, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist whose experiments about space provided some of the most ...

In an email to the campus community, President Garry W. Jenkins has shared the news of the passing of Charles A. Dana Professor Emeritus of Physics George Antony Ruff, a member of the faculty from ...

Rarely do academics get the chance to test out their research firsthand the way Alexey Galda does. That’s because the theoretical physicist and professor at the University of Chicago applies his ...

Women account for only a quarter of U.S. graduates who earn bachelor's degrees in physics, according to the American Physical Society, a Maryland-based nonprofit organization. But Dr. Tatiana ...

Nobel laureate Dr. George Smoot, who conducted groundbreaking research into the origins of the universe, has died. He was 80.