Department of Physics

Physicists at the University of Washington have discovered that by layering 2D materials (like a stack of pancakes), rotating them in particular configurations and exposing them to extremely low temperatures, the layers exhibit "exotic and unexpected" properties.

UW's Department of Physics  the University of Hong Kong and others quickly assembled a team to learn how B cells, a central player in adaptive immunity, were engaging this enemy.

Emeritus Professor Eric Adelberger, Professor Jens Gundlach, and Professor Blayne Heckel are the recipients of the 2021 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.

Three physics professors at the UW have been awarded the Breakthrough Prize in physics.

Researchers at the UW, working on the understanding of gravity, have been awarded the Breakthrough Prize in fundamental physics.

Three UW physics professors have won the 2021 Breakthrough Prize in Physics.

The National Science Foundation has awarded $3 million to establish a NSF Research Traineeship at the UW for graduate students in quantum information science and technology, or QIST.

Michael McCarthy, physics research assistant professor, explains the results of a new study on fruit flies.

John Cramer, professor of physics, is weighing in with a potential solution to one of the longest-running puzzles in quantum mechanics: a phenomenon known as wave function collapse.

Katie McCormick, postdoctoral scholar in physics, explains how lasers can produce the slowest thing on earth.

Mengyu Yan, physics postdoctorate and Mitchell Kaiser, chemistry graduate student are developing a tool that uses electromagnetism to destroy viruses and bacteria.

Gray Rybka, associate professor of physics, explains how scientists are detecting dark matter.

Two CAS students — Keyan Gootkin (astronomy and physics) and Karen Zhang (microbiology and biochemistry) — are among 396 students who have been named Goldwater Scholars for 2020.

Senior Keyan Gootkin, who is majoring in astronomy and physics, has been awarded the prestigious 2020 Goldwater scholarship.

Physics Professor Gray Rybka explains research into the size of dark matter axions.