Department of Physics

African Americans make up 7 percent of American college and university faculty. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, a theoretical physicist at the UW, is featured.

In April, thousands of scientists will take to the streets to rally on behalf of publicly funded, openly communicated, evidence-based research.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is preparing to test a network of radio relays on sea buoys (developed by the UW's Applied Physics Lab) and connected via fiber-optic cable.

The UW’s Hyperloop team is getting ready to compete in a set of pod races aimed at blazing a trail for a new means of near-supersonic travel – but they need a little help to get to the starting line.

It can be unsettling to realize that only 5 percent of the universe is made of the kind of matter we know and understand. Leslie Rosenberg, professor of physics at the UW, is quoted.

Microsoft says it’s moving ahead from just talking about quantum computing to building an actual quantum computer, based on the physics that won a Nobel Prize this year.

Researchers have come up with a way to allow one quantum computer component to efficiently transmit information to another, without losing its quantum character. 

Instead of being unique to human cells, it turns out that Terasaki "ramps" show up elsewhere, too: in the crust of collapsed stars.

Supercomputer calculation suggests hypothesized particle may be heavier than thought.

Professor Emeritus David Thouless is the Physics Department's second Nobel Prize recipient. 

Last week, the science media was abuzz with reports that dark energy might not exist. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, postdoctoral associate in physics at the UW, is quoted. 

Of the six winners of Nobel Prizes affiliated with American universities so far this year, all are foreign born. 

A total of 203 people have won the Nobel Prize in Physics, but only two were women.

David Thouless, a British-born professor emeritus at the University of Washington, has been awarded half of this year’s Nobel physics prize.

This year, the Nobel Prize in Physics went to three men — all born in Britain, but working at U.S. universities.