Department of Physics

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.

David J. Thouless from the UW, F. Duncan M. Haldane and J. Michael Kosterlitz were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday.

This year's Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to physicists David Thouless of the UW, F. Duncan Haldane of Princeton University and J. Michael Kosterlitz of Brown University.

Thouless, emeritus professor in Physics, is the 2016 winner for his work on exotic matter. 

A tiny, unseen force could potentially alter our basic understanding of the universe — if it really exists. David McKeen, a theoretical particle physicist at the UW, is quoted.