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MIT Physics in the News

Richard Yamamoto, physics professor, dies at age 74 [MIT News Office, 10.16.09]
"3 Questions: Prof. Steven Nahn on the elusive Higgs boson," MIT News Office, 10.19.09]
Pablo Jarillo-Herrero wins Packard Fellowship [MIT News Office, 10.16.09]
"Magnetism observed in a gas for the first time" [MIT News Office, 9.18.09].
Alumni Gerald Guralnik ('58), Carl R. Hagen ('58, '62) among winners of APS 2010 JJ Sakurai Prize.
Prof. Joshua Winn on "Backward Planets Discovered" on NPR's Here and Now [8.18.09]
Prof. Sara Seager on new data from Kepler orbiting telescope [MIT News Office, 8.6.09]
Prof. Emeritus Robert Birgeneau awarded 2009 "Pathfinders to Peace Prize"
Cutting CO2 emissions from existing coal plants: report from MITEI Director Prof. Ernie Moniz [MIT News Office, 6.19.09]
Planet found in tilted orbit around distant star [MIT News Office, 6.17.09]
Physics senior wins 2009 MISTI award for international internship [MIT News Office, 5.1.09]
Dresselhauses and Jarillo-Herrero among those researching graphene, "A material for all seasons" [MIT News Office, 5.4.09]
MIT Physics tackles diversity [MIT News Office, 4.30.09]
Prof. John Joannopoulos elected to National Academy of Sciences [MIT News Office, 4.28.09[
Prof. Ernest Moniz named to Obama's science and technology advisory council [MIT News Office, 4.27.09]
Prof. Mehran Kardar elected to AAAS [MIT News Office, 4.20.09]
Prof. Emeritus Laszlo Tisza, 1907-2009 [MIT News Office, 4.16.09;
Boston Globe, 4.21.09]
Prof. Janet Conrad named Guggenheim Fellow [MIT News Office, 4.8.09]
MIT / RSI students win 2009 Intel awards [3.19.09]
Energy-conserving technology used in construction of Green Center [Architectural Record, 11.08]
Institute Prof. Dresselhaus wins Vannevar Bush Award [MIT News Office, 3.10.09]
Physics undergrads among 15 MIT Art Scholars for 2009-10 [MIT News Office, 3.20.09]
Alumna Cherry Murray (SB '73; PhD '78) named Dean of Harvard's School of Engineering & Applied Sciences [Harvard Gazette, 3.10.09]
Alumna Prof. Shirley Jackson interviewed on NPR [3.4.09]
Physics senior named to academic all-America team [MIT News Office, 2.27.09]
Physics faculty win three of six total 2009 Sloan Research Fellowships for MIT [MIT News Office, 2.17.09]
Physicists discover surprising variation in superconductors [MIT News Office, 1.27.09]
Department's innovative TEAL instructors featured in New York Times [1.12.09]
New detector will aid dark matter search [MIT News Office, 12.10.08]
Physics Undergrad Wins Marshall Scholarship [MIT News Office, 12.1.08]
Good art hunting: MIT physics teacher tests art knowledge in hallway contest [arts@mit]
Prof. Sara Seager named to Discover's 'Top 20 under 40' [MIT News OFfice, 11.13.08]
Prof. Marin Soljacic among 2008 MacArthur "genius" grant winners [MIT News Office, 9.23.08]
Prof. Alexander van Oudenaarden wins $2.5M NIH Pioneer Award [MIT News Office, 9.22.08]
Bates researchers eye proton therapy for cancer [MIT News Office, 9.4.10]
The nitty-gritty of energy:
profile of ground-breaking new physics class 8.21 [MIT NEws Office, 8.22.08]
Chandra featured in Nature's list of top 10 NASA "hits"
"Earth's Twin Coming Into View"—Prof. Sara Seager interview [Montreal Gazette, 7.21.08]
Prof. Sara Seager on WBUR's On Point [ May 29, 2008]
Four undergraduates win $25,000 prize in Google mobile software competition [MIT News Office, 5.12.08]
Robert I. Hulsizer Jr., physics professor emeritus,88
[MIT News Office, 5.08.08]
Dean Kastner elected to National Academy of Sciences [MIT News Office, 4.29.08]
Catching planets in the making [MIT News Office, 4.7.08]
MIT aims to search for Earth-like planets with Google's help [MIT Tech Talk, 3.19.08]
MIT Visions interviews: Profs. Edward Farhi & Ernest Moniz
TR10: Wireless Power [Technology Review, March/April 2008]
High Wire Act
[Yahoo News, 3.11.08]
MIT Fights for Clean Power with Holy Grail of Fusion in Reach [Popular Mechanics, 2.28.08]
MIT Physicists Bask in the Media Limelight [MIT News Office, 3.5.08]
New York Academy of Science Interviews with Dresselhaus, Jarillo-Herrero, Wilczek & Tegmark [New York Academy of Science]
New 'snapshots' aid quest for fusion energy [MIT News Office, 2.28.08]
Zwierlein among seven MIT faculty awarded 2008 Sloan Research Fellowship [MIT News Office, 2.25.08]
MIT-Kavli Director Jackie Hewitt on NPR's Science Friday [NPR, 2.22.08]
Two members of MIT physics community honored with MLK Leaderships Awards [MIT News Office, 2.22.08]
Grad student Alex Rodriguez featured on APS's PhysicsCentral [ APS, Winter 2008]
Negele Describes Strange World of Quarks, Gluons [MIT News Office, 2.17.08]
MIT Reveals Superconducting Surprise [MIT Tech Talk, 2.13.08]
MIT applies engineering approach to studying biological pathways [Tech Talk, 2.13.08]
Q & A with Dean Marc Kastner [Tech Talk, 2.6.08]
Professors Eddie Farhi and Max Tegmark and Hollywood "Movie Magic" [New York Times, 2.5.08]
At 71, Physics Professor Is a Web Star -- Walter Lewin Profiled in New York Times [New York Times, December 19, 2007]
A Mural Creates a Secret Garden at MIT Boston Globe architecture critic Robert Campbell reviews the MIT Green Center's Sol LeWitt floor mural. [ Boston Sunday Globe, 12.9.07]
How Cold Can It Get? NPR's All Things Condsidered interviews MIT Nobel Laureate Wolfgang Ketterle. [National Public Radio, December 8, 2007]
Zwierlein wins physics award for discovery in superfluidity. [MIT Tech Talk, December 5, 2007]
Frank Wilczek,
Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics, named co-recipient of the
2004 Nobel Prize in Physics for "the discovery of asymptotic
freedom in the theory of the strong interaction". more
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David
E. Pritchard, the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics,
has received the Optical Society of Americas Max Born Award.
The award, given annually to recognize outstanding contributions
to physical optics, theoretical or experimental, honors Pritchard
for his work in the creative application of light to new forms
of spectroscopy, to manipulation and trapping of atoms, and for
pioneering the new fields of atom optics and atom interferometry."
[MIT Tech Talk, June 2, 2004]
Alan H. Guth,
the Victor F. Weisskopf Professor of Physics, is co-winner of the
2004
Cosmology Prize of the Peter Gruber Foundation. Guth and colleague
Andrei Linde of
Stanford University were awarded the prize for
"...their development of fundamental ideas of cosmic inflation,
which has been one of the dominant themes of cosmology for more
than two decades.
The original concept of inflation and its many variations, including
chaotic inflation, proposed and developed by Guth and Linde, have
led to a revolution in our approach to studying cosmology and to
understanding the history of the universe."
The Cosmology Prize of the Peter Gruber Foundation is one of the
premier international prizes in the field. The Foundation annually
presents its gold medal and a $200,000 unrestricted cash award to
an outstanding scientist or scientists who have made groundbreaking
contributions in the field of cosmology.
Professor Frank
Wilczek Awarded 2003 Lilienfeld Prize of the American Physical Society
Physicists
Guth,
Wilczek win major awards
(MIT News Office, September 6, 2002)
MIT Professor of Physics Emeritus Martin Deutsch: 19172002
Alan
Guth awarded 2002 Dirac Medal
(International Center for Theoretical Physics, August 8, 2002)
MIT
researchers create a continuous source of coherent atoms
(MIT News Office, May 16, 2002)
Retired
MIT professor Felix Villars dies at 81; Was pioneer in biological
physics
(MIT News Office, May 2, 2002)
Retired
MIT Professor Weisskopf dies at 93; Was protégé
of physicist Niels Bohr
(MIT News Office, April 23, 2002)
Physicist
Lived for Beethoven, Quantum Mechanics
(Los Angeles Times, April 29, 2002)
Kleppner
Honored by NAS
Hewitt
Takes the Controls at Center for Space Research
MIT
physicist shares 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics
(MIT News Office, October 9, 2001)
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