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Image credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory
September 28, 2020
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) in Long Island, New York, which has a strong research partnership with Yale, officially launched...
(c) Yale News. Reina Maruyama on the right and Shelly Lesher on the left
September 28, 2020
Reina Maruyama (Associate Professor of Physics) and Shelly Lesher (Yale presidental Visiting Scholar) have been elected as Fellows of the American Physical Society (APS) for...
September 25, 2020
Elie Track graduated with a Ph.D. from Yale Physics in 1988 (with Prof. Dan Prober’s group). He is a founder and CEO of nVizix LLC, a company that focuses on developing and...
This Hubble Ultra Deep Field image reveals a random sample of nearly 10,000 galaxies, including some of the most distant ever found. It was combined from 800 separate exposures with the Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys over the course of 400 Hubble orbits around Earth, in the period Sept. 24, 2003 and Jan. 16, 2004. (Credit: NASA, ESA, and S. Beckwith [STScI] and the HUDF Team)
September 24, 2020
from Yale News (September 23, 2020), “A new spin on supermassive black holes” New observational research suggests that supermassive black holes — the mysterious, light-...
Meg Urry (Israel Munson Professor of Physics)
September 24, 2020
Firsts and Founders in the FAS: A Series in Celebration of 50WomenAtYale150 This series profiles notable FAS faculty members, past and present, who happen to be women. Each...