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Ernest O. Lawrence (M.A. Physics 1923), 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics [1]; Walter Brattain (PhD Physics 1929), 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics [2]; Melvin Calvin (PhD Chemistry 1935), 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry [3]
The University of Minnesota (officially the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities) is a public land-grant research university in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. The Twin Cities campus comprises locations in Minneapolis and Falcon Heights, a suburb of St. Paul, approximately 3 mi (4.8 km) apart.
The William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute is a research institute in the University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering.FTPI was largely the work of physics Professor Emeritus, Stephen Gasiorowicz and university alumnus and Twin Cities real-estate developer William I. Fine. [1] The institute officially came into existence in January 1987. [2]
From 2006 to 2008 he was vice-chair and then chair of the Division of Condensed Matter Physics of the American Physical Society. From 1999 to 2005 he was an associate editor for the Reviews of Modern Physics. The University of Minnesota annually awards the Goldman Fellowship to a graduate student in the physics department.
The Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) is a research institute of the University of California, Santa Barbara dedicated to theoretical physics. KITP is one of 20 Kavli Institutes. The National Science Foundation has been the principal supporter of the institute since it was founded as the Institute for Theoretical Physics in 1979.
Doctoral students. Phyllis S. Freier. John D. Linsley. Frank B. McDonald. Edward Purdy Ney (October 28, 1920 – July 9, 1996) was an American physicist who made major contributions to cosmic ray research, atmospheric physics, heliophysics, and infrared astronomy. [1] He was a discoverer of cosmic ray heavy nuclei and of solar proton events.
The Society of Physics Students at UC Irvine is UCI's chapter of the Society of Physics Students. The club conducts and organizes events to help students develop interest in physics, as well as providing areas for study. [13] The Astronomy Club at UCI is a student-run club based on Astronomy.
The graduate program was ranked fifth (or sixth, depending on which method used) among physics program in the 2011 study by the National Research Council. [10] U.S. News & World Report ranked the graduate program tenth in the country across all subfields, third in Condensed Matter Physics, fifth in Quantum Physics, eighth in Elementary Particles/Field/String Theory, and ninth in Cosmology ...