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April 9, 2002

Missile Defense Expert To Speak At Texas A&M April 11

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 […]

February 21, 2002

Trotter Lecture Series To Feature 2 Nobel Prize Winners Feb. 25

COLLEGE STATION — The Texas A&M University’s College of Science will commemorate the debut of a unique prize Monday (Feb. 25), and Brazos Valley science enthusiasts stand to be the big winners. The college will host two Nobel Laureates, Francis Crick of The Salk Institute and Charles Townes of the University of California-Berkeley, who are […]

January 3, 2002

Edward Fry Named To Head Texas A&M Physics Department

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 […]

November 19, 2001

Area Scientist Ranked Fourth Most Highly Cited Researcher In High Energy Physics

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 […]

October 16, 2001

Physicists Count Subatomic Particles Released By The Sun

COLLEGE STATION — The sun not only radiates light all over the place, but it also emits millions of tiny invisible particles called neutrinos. A team of Texas A&M University physicists has reported in the journal Physical Review C one of the most precise results about the number of solar neutrinos by using an original […]

September 20, 2001

Texas A&M Astronomer Produces NASA Astronomy Picture Of The Day

Texas A&M University’s astronomy program enjoyed a brief moment in the sun earlier this week when a photograph created by Mark Lemmon, a visiting assistant professor of physics, was featured as NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day for Sept. 18. Lemmon’s picture, “Surrounded by Mars,” represents a large panoramic view of the Mars Pathfinder spacecraft […]

May 24, 2001

Physicists Have Joined Battle To Fight Cancer By Studying Collisions Between Particles

COLLEGE STATION — Physicists at Texas A&M University have joined the battle to fight cancer by studying collisions between particles. Professor John F. Reading and three graduate students are trying to understand how to make the best use of radiation to kill tumor cells. In current radiation treatments, only a portion of tumor cells die, […]

May 23, 2001

Marlan O. Scully Honored With Reception Celebrating His Election To The National Academy Of Sciences

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 […]

May 22, 2001

Texas A&M University is host of the two-year College Quantum Optics Advanced Technological Education Program

COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M University is hosting a two-week training program in quantum optics for community college physics teachers. The program entitled “Two-Year College Quantum Optics Advanced Technological Education Program” is conducted by Texas A&M, Lee College of Baytown and the National Science Foundation. It is managed by Marlan O. Scully, who holds the […]

May 2, 2001

Scully Elected To National Academy Of Sciences

COLLEGE STATION — Dr. Marlan O. Scully, Distinguished Professor of Physics at Texas A&M University, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences during the organization’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C. Scully was one of 72 new members and 15 foreign associates from 10 countries chosen at the academy’s meeting this week in recognition of […]

February 6, 2001

Texas A&M Physicist Makes New Advance For Theory Of Quantum Gravity

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, […]

January 26, 2001

Texas A&M University Physicists Have Devised A Way To Stop Light

COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M University physicists have devised a way to stop light, an accomplishment that could help develop super-fast computers, called quantum computers. “Slowing down light revolutionizes modern nonlinear optics,” says Olga Kocharovskaya, associate professor of physics at Texas A&M. “Utilizing the nonlinear properties of light in a medium is usually not easy […]

December 15, 2000

A Texas A&M Physicist Is Developing A Technique To Identify Molecules On The Surfaces Of Metals

COLLEGE STATION — A Texas A&M University physicist is developing a technique to identify molecules on the surfaces of metals, which could have far-reaching implications in the control of chemical reactions in operations within the chemical and petroleum industries. “It is possible to get images of molecules today with the Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM), but […]

October 24, 2000

Texas A&M Physicists Devising What May Be The Next Generation Of Computers

COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M physicists are devising computer codes and prototypes of quantum computers, which may be the next generation of computers. An ordinary computer may seem very sophisticated, but in fact, it is only programmed to gobble large series of ones and zeros and spit out other large series of ones and zeros. […]

April 4, 1999

Texas A&M Researchers Studying Car Batteries

COLLEGE STATION — From DieHards to Delcos, most car batteries are pretty much created equal: they eventually lose their juice. Two Texas A&M University physicists are looking into ways to keep batteries going and going and going, and finding answers that embrace both biology and chemistry. Their project also hints at something that has puzzled […]

October 21, 1998

Pokrovsky Named Distinguished Professor

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 […]

June 9, 1998

Scully Awarded For Laser Research

COLLEGE STATION — The Optical Society of America has presented Marlan O. Scully of Texas A&M University the 1998 Charles Hard Townes Award for his role in laying the theoretical foundation for laser science, free electron lasers and lasers without inversion. Scully is the Burgess Distinguished Professor of Physics and director of both the Center […]

June 3, 1998

Physicist Marlan Scully Awarded Honor from Leading Optical Society

COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M University physicist and Texas Engineering Experiment Station researcher Dr. Marlan O. Scully has won the 1998 Charles H. Townes Award from the most prestigious society in the optics and photonics field for his work in quantum electronics. Scully, a distinguished professor in the university’s physics department who also holds a […]

April 21, 1998

Physics to Recruit Graduate Students

From 8:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday (April 25) the Department of Physics is having its annual open house for the purpose of recruiting graduate students. Students from other parts of The Texas A&M University System, as well as other universities both within the state and in contiguous states will meet in Rooms 205 and […]

March 16, 1998

Texas A&M Sigma Xi Chapter Names Duff Top Science Communicator For 1998

COLLEGE STATION — Michael J. Duff, a theoretical physicist at Texas A&M University, has been named the university’s outstanding science communicator for 1998 by the Texas A&M chapter of the research society Sigma Xi. Duff, a distinguished professor in Texas A&M’s Physics Department and Center for Theoretical Physics, will be recognized during Sigma Xi’s annual […]