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Pushing boundaries: Nobel prize winner on science literacy and lasers Nobelist Donna Strickland visited U-M campus recently as part of the Ta-You Wu lecture series.

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News & Features

U-M Physics Professors Roberto Merlin, Gregory Tarlé, and Graduate Student Noah Green Help Create Novel Optical Physics Method to Measure the Expansion of the Universe

A team of researchers from the University of Michigan Department of Physics and the University of Hawaii’s Institute of Astronomy are suggesting a new way to use quasars to measure the expansion of the universe directly.

U-M Physics Group Led by Professor Tim Chupp Joins in Announcement of Stronger Evidence of New Physics Revealed by Fermilab's Muon g-2 Experiment

A new measurement of the muon's magnetic properties strengthens evidence of undiscovered particles and forces.

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