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Based on an academic style that emphasizes ocean and commerce, [16] it not only is the birthplace of Taiwan's first college of maritime sciences but also is unique in hosting water sports activities directly on campus. Uniquely, NSYSU's graduation requirements for its students include demonstration of swimming ability.
The current name was adopted in 1999 when the institute was merged with the Changchun Institute of Physics, headed by Xu Xurong. [ 1 ] Under the leadership of Wang Daheng, the institute played a crucial role in the development of China's strategic weapons, developing high-precision optics for missile guidance systems.
The National Institute of Physics (NIP) was established in 1983 by Presidential Executive Order No. 889 [1] which transformed the Department of Physics of the College of Arts and Sciences into one of the seven research and academic institutes of the University of the Philippines Diliman - College of Science.
The department of physics and astronomy offers a broad array of classes in both these subjects. It operates the BYU planetarium and the various telescopes connected with BYU's observatory. Besides astronomy the department has research groups in Acoustics; Atomic, Molecular and Optical studies; Condensed Matter; Plasma; and Theoretical and ...
The C. N. Yang Institute of Theoretical Physics (YITP) is a research center at Stony Brook University.In 1965, it was the vision of then University President J.S. Toll and Physics Department chair T.A. Pond to create an institute for theoretical physics and invite the famous physicist Chen Ning Yang from Institute for Advanced Study to serve as its director with the Albert Einstein ...
The Blackett Laboratory is part of the Imperial College Faculty of Natural Sciences and has housed the Department of Physics at Imperial College London since its completion in 1961. [3] Named after experimental physicist Patrick Blackett who established a laboratory at the college, [ 4 ] the building is located on the corner of Prince Consort ...
The department is based on two sites: the Schuster Laboratory on Brunswick Street and the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics in Cheshire, international headquarters of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). [3] According to the Academic Ranking of World Universities, the department is the 9th best physics department in the world and best in Europe ...
The building was completed in 1972, [2] and houses the astronomy, mathematics, and physics departments, [3] [4] as well as the Kuehne Physics Mathematics Astronomy Library. [5] [6] The building was originally named Physics-Mathematics-Astronomy Building (PMA) but was renamed to Robert Lee Moore Hall in 1973, after mathematician Robert Lee Moore ...