Department of Physics

Jason Detwiler is an assistant professor of physics at the University of Washington, and he’s on the hunt for a natural phenomenon that is insanely rare.

Researchers from the University of Washington and Columbia University are getting ready for an unprecedented months-long campaign to study Antarctica’s ice shelves from the ocean below.

Gerald A. Miller, UW professor of physics, is quoted.

Professor of Chemistry, Daniel Gamelin, is director of the new Molecular Engineering Materials Center for research, education and training in materials science. 

University of Washington physicist Kai-Mei Fu discusses quantum internet. 

Physics professor Kai-Mei Fu is quoted in this article. 

Evolutionary psychology is just the most obvious example of science’s flaws.

Forty percent of women of color said that they felt unsafe in their current job as a result of harassment about their gender.

According to Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, a theoretical physicist at the University of Washington, axions could theoretically condense into something like a Bose-Einstein condensate.

A team led by researchers from the University of Washington and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology published their results this week in the journal Nature.

A team led by the University of Washington and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has for the first time discovered magnetism in the 2-D world of monolayers.

Four graduate students are receiving the A&S Graduate Medal along with their PhDs.

Ernest Mark Henley, a celebrated nuclear physicist and University of Washington administrator, died on March 27, 2017, at age 92.

Hans Dehmelt, former professor in Physics at the UW and Nobel Laureate, passed away at 94.

The German-born physicist, who spent most of his career at the UW, died earlier this month. He was 94.