The Gibbs Symposium 2003 celebrates the centenary of the publication of Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics, held February 28, 2003. Speakers were:
Ole Knudsen,...
Ramamurti Shankar, chair of the physics department, faced a daunting challenge when he was invited by Graduate School Dean Susan Hockfield to explain quantum theory to non-...
Professor Pierre Hohenberg wins the 2003 Lars Onsager Prize from the American Physical Society. His citation reads, “For contributions to a wide range of topics in...
Retired Yale professor and Yale alumnus John B. Fenn was awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize in chemistry for research he conducted during his 20-year tenure at Yale.
In addition to...
In the spring of 2002, the Department of Physics began a review of its entire undergraduate program. A faculty Committee On the Undergraduate Program (COUP) was established...
