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 […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Mikhail Lukin received his doctorate in physics from Texas A&M University in 1998 under the supervision of Distinguished Professor of Physics Dr. Marlan O. Scully. Cambridge, Mass. — Mikhail Lukin thinks that devices based on quantum science are at the same stage as radios were about 100 years ago. To catch up, the […]
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 […]
As part of a campus-wide explosion in faculty numbers, the physics department at Texas A&M University in College Station aims to launch a top-notch astronomy program. Overall, the campus is increasing its faculty size by 450, or 25%, by 2008. Physics faculty will swell from 45 to 60, with at least four of the new […]
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 — The universe is expanding, and it is doing so in a rapid manner, believes renowned astronomer Robert Kirshner of Harvard University. His remarks were part of Mitchell Symposium on Observational Cosmology being presented this week at Texas A&M University. The conference features 40 of the world’s top astronomers and physicists commenting on […]
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 — Dr. Christopher Pope, the Texas A&M physics professor and high-energy theorist who earned his doctorate studying under renowned physicist Stephen Hawking, has been appointed to a new endowed chair named for Hawking. Pope will hold the Stephen Hawking Chair in Fundamental Physics, established with a recent gift from George P. and Cynthia […]
COLLEGE STATION — Affectionately called the “quantum cowboy,” Marlan Scully rides herd on experiments at the frontiers of physics, bringing to life knowledge to spur applications in optics, computing and quantum mechanics. Talk to Scully about his “top gun” physicist status, and he responds with the kind of “aw-shucks modesty” typical of the Western hero. […]
COLLEGE STATION — Richard L. Garwin, one of the world’s foremost experts on advanced weapons systems and a member of both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering, will deliver a lecture titled “National Missile Defense: Why, How and Whether?” at 4 p.m. Thursday (April 11) at Texas A&M University. Garwin’s […]
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 […]
THE WOODLANDS — Dimitri Nanopoulos, head of the Houston Advanced Research Center’s Astroparticle Physics Group, holder of the rank of Distinguished Professor of Physics at Texas A&M University, and Chair of Theoretical Physics at the Academy of Athens, has been ranked as the fourth most frequently cited high-energy physicist by SPIRES, Stanford University’s public information […]
COLLEGE STATION — Marlan O. Scully, Distinguished Professor of Physics at Texas A&M University, was honored Tuesday with a reception celebrating his recent election to the National Academy of Sciences and was praised by a host of top university officials, including President Ray Bowen and Executive Vice President and Provost Ronald G. Douglas. The “Quantum […]
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