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Four Physics Faculty Awarded American Physical Society Honors Physics faculty Steven Cundiff, Katherine Freese, Sharon Glotzer, and Jordan Horowitz honored with APS prizes.

Four Physics Faculty Named 2018 Fellows of the American Physical Society Physicists Henriette Elvang, David Lubensky, Stephen Rand, and Alexander Thomas Named 2018 APS Fellows.

Gas-Detecting Laser Device Gets an Upgrade Physicist Steven Cundiff and Research Team Update Device to Sniff Out Gases in Less Than a Half Second!

U-M Physicist Wins Nobel Prize Today, Gérard Albert Mourou, Professor Haut-Collège at the Ecole Polytechnique and A.D. Moore Distinguished University Emeritus Professor of the University of Michigan (EECS and Applied Physics) won the Nobel Prize in Physics with Arthur Ashkin and Donna Strickland.

The Higgs Boson Reveals Its Love for the Top Quark New results from the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the LHC reveal how strongly the Higgs boson interacts with the heaviest known elementary particle, the top quark, corroborating our understanding of the Higgs and setting constraints on new physics.

Homer A. Neal 1942-2018 Remembering University Professor of Physics Homer A. Neal, 1942-2018

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Michigan Physics Welcomes LSA Collegiate Postdoctoral Fellow Camille Avestruz

Dr. Avestruz’s multi-faceted research interests focus on large scale structures of our universe. She simulates the evolution of galaxy clusters to understand the forces at play in this process and to predict and interpret observations of the cosmos.

U-M Physicists Roberto Merlin, Meredith Henstridge and Team Develop Small Device that Bends Light to Generate New Radiation

Physicists Roberto Merlin, Meredith Henstridge and their research team have led the development of a device the size of a match head that can bend light inside a crystal to generate synchrotron radiation in a lab.

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