COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M University Distinguished Professor of Physics Dr. Marlan O. Scully has been recognized by the American Physical Society (APS) with its 2005 Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science. Scully is cited “for his many far-reaching contributions to quantum optics and quantum electronics and, in particular, for the quantum theory of […]
COLLEGE STATION — Quantum optics research at Texas A&M University achieved worldwide fame once again last week, earning a prestigious reference in the advanced information regarding the 2005 Nobel Prize for Physics, shared by American physicists Roy J. Glauber and John L. Hall and German physicist Theodor W. Hansch. After paying homage to Max Planck, […]
COLLEGE STATION — International physics scholars Dr. Raymond Bishop and Dr. Hermann Kümmel are joint recipients of the 2005 Eugene Feenberg Memorial Medal in Many-Body Physics, awarded by the International Advisory Committee for the series of International Conferences on Recent Progress in Many-Body Theories. Texas A&M University Professor of Physics Siu A. Chin, who serves […]
COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M University Professor of Physics Dr. William H. Bassichis is one of five University faculty members who have been appointed to University Professorships in Undergraduate Teaching Excellence, announced Executive Vice President and Provost David B. Prior. The three-year appointment carries an annual salary supplement of $5,000 provided by the University, as […]
Nobel Prize-winning scientist Dudley Herschbach wanted to be a cowboy since he was 6 years old. “My dad would call me ‘High Ho Silver’ because I thought I was the Lone Ranger,” he said. “I’ve identified with the romantic notion of Texas for many decades.” In the fall, Herschbach’s dream will come true, in part, […]
COLLEGE STATION — Dr. Dudley R. Herschbach, 1986 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry and Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University, will join Texas A&M University’s Department of Physics, effective September 1, 2005, announced Dr. Edward S. Fry, professor and head of Physics. Herschbach has accepted a position as professor of physics […]
COLLEGE STATION — Dr. Emil Wolf, Wilson Professor of Optical Physics at the University of Rochester and a world renowned authority on physical optics, will visit the Texas A&M University campus next week to deliver two presentations on optical science as part of the Department of Physics Distinguished Lecture Series. On Wed., Mar. 9, Wolf […]
COLLEGE STATION — Dr. Hans A. Schuessler, professor of physics specializing in optical and biomedical physics, has been appointed to the Schuessler/Mitchell/Heep Chair in Experimental Optical and Biomedical Physics in the Department of Physics at Texas A&M University. This chair was recently endowed with gifts from Schuessler, George P. Mitchell, of The Woodlands, and a […]
COLLEGE STATION — Continuing his support of the study of cosmology and experimental physics at Texas A&M University, George P. Mitchell ’40 has donated $500,000 to the Department of Physics which, with matching funds from the Heep Foundation, establishes the Mitchell/Heep Chair in Experimental High Energy Physics. Mitchell, former chairman and chief executive officer of […]
COLLEGE STATION — Dr. Hans A. Schuessler was honored at a luncheon yesterday (May 5) for his donation to Texas A&M University which, combined with a donation from George P. Mitchell ’40 and matching funds by the Heep Foundation, establishes the Schuessler/Mitchell/Heep Chair in Experimental Optical and Biomedical Physics. Distributions from this endowed fund will […]
COLLEGE STATION — Looking to better understand the origins of the universe, The George P. & Cynthia W. Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics at Texas A&M University will host an international conference on “String Theory and Cosmology,” March 14-17. After the conference, there will be a public presentation on March 20 of “Superstrings, Time Warps, […]
COLLEGE STATION — Dr. Alexei V. Sokolov, assistant professor of physics in the College of Science at Texas A&M University, has been awarded a $35,000 Research Innovation Award (RIA) to support his investigation on the process of creating ever-shorter pulses of light. The award was given to Sokolov after his proposal underwent an extensive peer […]
COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M physicist Marlan Scully has won the Quantum Electronics Award bestowed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (IEEE/LEOS) for outstanding technical contributions to quantum electronics. The award includes a bronze medal and a $4,000 honorarium. Scully, a distinguished professor and a member of the […]
COLLEGE STATION — The inaugural winners of Texas A&M University’s new $25,000 teaching excellence awards – believed to be the highest monetary value in the nation from a single institution making such presentations annually – are Professor William H. Bassichis of the Department of Physics and Professor Ludy T. Benjamin Jr. of the Department of […]
COLLEGE STATION — Marlan Scully, the Texas A&M University professor who applied quantum physics to the automotive engine and came up with a design that emits laser beams instead of exhaust, has been tinkering under the hood again. This time, he’s sized up the perfect engine — and improved it. Scully, known as the “Quantum […]
COLLEGE STATION — Dimitri Nanopoulos, a Texas A&M physics professor and one of the world’s most noted researchers in high-energy physics, has been appointed to a new endowed chair associated with the university’s George P. and Cynthia W. Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics. Dr. Nanopoulos will hold the Mitchell-Heep Chair in High-Energy Physics, which is […]
COLLEGE STATION — Robert W. and Marianne E. Hamm, the first married couple to earn doctorates in physics at Texas A&M University, have given the university $50,000 to endow two physics scholarships. The Marianne ’76 & Robert ’77 Hamm Scholarships in Physics will assist undergraduates who finished in the top 25 percent of their high […]
COLLEGE STATION — Prof. Edward S. Fry has been appointed head of Texas A&M University’s Department of Physics, announced H. Joseph Newton, interim dean of the College of Science. Fry has been a member of the Texas A&M faculty since 1969. “I am pleased that Dr. Fry has accepted the appointment,” Newton said. “I feel […]
COLLEGE STATION — In 1905, Einstein made major changes to laws of physics when he established his theory of relativity. Now Einstein’s laws might also undergo significant changes. Dimitri Nanopoulos, who holds the rank of Distinguished Professor of Physics at Texas A&M University and heads the Houston Advanced Research Center’s Group for Astroparticle Physics, established, […]
COLLEGE STATION — Physicist Valery L. Pokrovsky has been named a Distinguished Professor of Physics by The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents. Pokrovsky joined the physics faculty at Texas A&M in 1992, and his areas of research include scattering theory, statistical mechanics, two-dimensional systems, magnetism, superconductivity and the quantum Hall effect. “Pokrovsky has […]
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