Home // News // physics@mit Journal: Fall 2026 Edition physics@mit Journal: Fall 2026 Edition Featured Stories Crystalline Graphene: Nature’s Rosetta Stone of Emergent Quantum Phenomena My Life in QCD: Year One MIT and the November Revolution: Establishing the Standard Model of Particle Physics Past Issues 2026 Full Edition Crystalline Graphene: Nature’s Rosetta Stone of Emergent Quantum Phenomena by Long Ju My Life in QCD: Year One by Frank Wilczek MIT and the November Revolution: Establishing the Standard Model of Particle Physics by Peter Fisher and David Kaiser Student Honors & Awards // with Graduate Degree Recipients Patrons of Physics Fellows Society // The personal stories of graduate fellowship recipients were shared at the Society’s annual dinner. 2025 Full Edition Cosmic Interference Patterns Resolve the Heart of a Radio Burst by Kiyoshi Masui Searching for Time-Reversal Violation with Unstable Molecules by Ronald F. Garcia Ruiz. From Nuclei to Nebulae: The Scientific Journey of Vera Kistiakowsky by Lindley Winslow Giving to Physics // $20 million gift supports theoretical physics research and education at MIT Erratum // Page 27, Graduate Degree Recipients, May/June 2025: Correct spelling is Rahul Jayaraman. 2024 Full Edition Chiral Quantum Matter by Riccardo Comin Quantum Gravity and Symmetry by Daniel Harlow Patrons of Physics Fellows Society by Danielle Forde Student Profile // Khachatur Nazaryan, PhD Candidate Student Honors and Awards // with Graduate Degree Recipients 2023 Full Edition Seeing further into our past, and future, with the James Webb Space Telescope by Robert Simcoe The Black Hole Information Paradox: A Resolution on the Horizon by Netta Engelhardt Deep Learning + Deep Thinking = Deeper Understanding by Mike Williams and Jesse Thaler Feature article // Physics Academic Administrator Cathy Modica retires after 24 years of service to the Institute Student Profile // Kaley Brauer PhD ’23 2022 Full Edition The Quantum Pendulum Qubit by Martin Zwierlein Bizarre Black Holes and the Observers Who Love Them by Erin Kara Giant "LEAPS": Innovative science career guidance program for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars by Sandi Miller Student Profile // Sangbaek Lee, PhD Candidate, Experimental Nuclear Physics (Milner Group) Giving to Physics // Art '56, SM '58, PhD '60 and Fran Peskoff Support the Physics Department 2021 Full Edition "Keeping Better Time through Entanglement" by Vladan Vuletić, Simone Colombo and Edwin Pedrozo-Peñafiel "From Quarks to Nuclei: The Building Blocks of Matter" by Phiala Shanahan "Remotely Educational: Teaching Physics in the Age of Zoom" by Sandi Miller Honors and Awards // Student Honors & Awards with Graduate Degree Recipients Student Profile // Cedric Wilson, PhD Candidate, Experimental Atomic Physics (Zwierlein Group) 2020 Full Edition "The 21st-Century Electron Microscope for the Study of the Fundamental Structure of Matter" by Richard G. Milner "Capturing Our Genome in Action" by Ibrahim Cissé "Particles for Justice: Strike for Black Lives" by Sandi Miller In Remembrance // Emeritus Professors Aron Bernstein, Thomas Dupree, and Ulrich Becker Giving to Physics // Profile on alum Ken La Gattuta '69 2019 Full Edition "Listening for Dark Matter from the Basement of Building 24" by Lindley Winslow and Jesse Thaler "Magic Angle Graphene: A New Twist on Quantum Materials" by Pablo Jarillo-Herrero and Senthil Todadri "Virtual Reality in Physics Education and Research" by Scott W. Greenwald, John Belcher, and Joseph Checkelsky In Remembrance // Professor Emeritus Bernard Burke, astrophysics pioneer, dies at 90 Also in this issue // Student Profile: Tony Zhang, a double major in physics and mathematics 2018 Full Edition "Electrons Go Viscous—and Zippy by Leonid Levitov "We're made from star stuff. And neutron star merger stuff." by Anna Frebel "Center for Theoretical Physics Celebrates 50 Years" by Scott Morley and Carol Breen Giving to Physics // Rainer Weiss, Professor of Physics Emeritus and 2017 Nobel Laureate In Remembrance // Emeritus Professors Eric R. Cosman '63, PhD '66 and Stanislaw Olbert 2017 Full Edition "The Secret Life of Quarks" by William Detmold "Jetting Through the Quark Soup" by Yen-Jie Lee "Gravitational Waves: Opening Einstein's Ears" by Scott Hughes and Elizabeth Thomson In Remembrance // Emerti Professors Kerson Huang, Ali Javan, Anthony French, Mildred Dresselhaus, and Arthur Kerman Giving to Physics // Profile on Jim ('53, PhD '57) and Sylvia Earl 2016 Full Edition "Life Out of Equilibrium" by Nikta Fakhri "Neutrinos in the Spotlight" by Joseph Formaggio "A Transformative Teaching Experience in Atomic Physics at MIT" by Isaac Chuang and Wolfgang Ketterle In Remembrance // Laboratory for Nuclear Science physicist, Frederic John Eppling Giving to Physics // Paul Swartz '73, PhD '79 2015 Full Edition "Gravitational Waves and Black Holes" by Matthew Evans "Graphene and Topological Insulators" by Ray Ashoori, Nuh Gedik and Pablo Jarillo-Herrero "2016 Oersted Medal Winner John Belcher" by Department of Physics In Remembrance // Emeritus Professors Benjamin Lax and Malcolm W.P. Strandberg Giving to Physics // Profile on Robert Lourie '82, PhD '86 2014 Full Edition "The Dark Side of the Galaxy: A First Signal in Gamma Rays?" by Tracy Slatyer "Small Accelerators for Big Questions" by Janet Conrad "Astrophysics and the Single Mother" by Sara Seager In Remembrance // Emeritus Professor John King and Alan Lazarus Giving to Physics // Profile on Carol and Jose Alonso 2013 Full Edition "Triumph, Window, Clue, and Inspiration: The Higgs Particle in Context" by Frank Wilczek "The MIT Physics Department Experience with edX" by John W. Belcher "Quantum Cloning, Quantum Money, and Quantum Monogamy" by Edward Farhi and Aram Harrow In Remembrance // Professor Peter Demos Student Profile // Nirat Ray, PhD Candidate, Experimental Condensed Matter Physics 2012 Full Edition "Strange New Worlds" by Joshua Winn "Life in Translation" by Jeremy L. England "Advancing Diversity and Excellence in Physics" by Ed Bertschinger Student Profile // Yonatan (Yoni) Kahn, PhD Candidate, High-Energy Theoretical Physics In Remembrance // Emeritus Professors Louis S. Osborne and George Koster 2011 Full Edition "Many-body Physics Through a Gravitational Lens" by Hong Liu "A Little Big Bang" by Martin Zwierlein In Remembrance // EAPS and Physics Professor James Elliot Giving to Physics // Profile of Mark Mueller ('78) 2010 Full Edition "Illuminating the High-Energy Frontier" by Markus Klute and Gunther Roland "Tackling Cancer Biology with Fundamental Physics" by Alexander van Oudenaarden "'So, what did you measure?' Henry W. Kendall and Physics Junior Lab" by Sean P. Robinson Also in this issue // The 10th Anniversary of the Pappalardo Fellowships in Physics In Remembrance // Professors Richard Yamamoto and Michael S. Feld 2009 Full Edition "What is Space?" by Frank Wilczek "Winds of Change in the Hunt for Dark Matter" by Jocelyn Monroe and James Battat "Memories from a Life in Physics" by Mildred Dresselhaus In Remembrance // Professor Emeritus Laszlo Tisza Giving to Physics // Profile on Juan Carlos Torres (SM '79) 2008 Full Edition "High Temperature Superconductivity, One Atom at a Time" by Eric Hudson "Exoplanet Mass, Radius, and the Search for Habitable Worlds" by Sara Seager "The Physics of Energy: Introducing 8.21" by Robert L. Jaffe and Washington Taylor In Remembrance // Professor Harald Enge and Emeritus Professor Robert I. Hulsizer, Jr. Giving to Physics // Profiles on Hale Bradt, Professor of Physics Emeritus and Serpil and Yalcin (EE ’73) Ayasli 2007 Full Edition "Southern Skies and Cosmic Questions" by Ed Bertschinger "Viki Weisskopf: Searching for Simplicity in a Complicated World" by David Kaiser In Remembrance // Emeritus Professor Francis E. Low Giving to Physics // Profiles on Jane and A. Neil (EE '64) Pappalardo and Howard (’73) and Colleen Messing 2006 Full Edition "Resonating with Feshbach" by Frank Wilczek "Photonic Crystal Enhancement of Optical Non-linearities" by Marin Soljačić "The Mystery of CP Violation" by Gabriella Sciolla Giving to Physics // Profiles on Mark Mueller ('78) and Mark Siegel ('90) and Suzanne Z. Deutsch Also in this issue // The Green Center for Physics 2005 Full Edition "Cosmic Dawn: Hunting for the First Stars in the Universe" by Robert Simcoe "Generating Single Photons on Demand" by Vladan Vuletić "From Bell's Phonautograph to TEAL" by Anthony P. French In Remembrance // Institute Professor Philip Morrison Giving to Physics // Profiles on Jane & Otto Morningstar, George Elbaum and Morton E. Goulder 2004 Full Edition "Emeritus in a Flash" by Daniel Kleppner "Quantum Information: Joining the Foundations of Physics and Computer Science" by Isaac Chuang "From Vibrating Strings to a Unified Theory of All Interactions" by Barton Zwiebach Giving to Physics // Profiles of John K. Castle (EC '63) and the Castle Fellowship and Virgil Elings (PhD '66) 2003 Full Edition "The Origin of Mass" by Frank Wilczek "Einstein's Mirages" by Paul L. Schechter "An Educational Initiative: VIII-B in Review" by Thomas Greytak In Remembrance // Professor Martin Deutsch Giving to Physics // Profiles on George Elbaum (AA '59) and Jim ('53, PhD '57) and Sylvia Earl 2002 Full Edition "Noisy Genes" by Alexander van Oudenaarden "Inflation and the New Era of High-Precision Cosmology" by Alan H. Guth "Bose-Einstein Condensation: A Double Pot of Gold" by David E. Pritchard In Remembrance // Professors Victor F. Weisskopf and Felix Villars Giving to Physics // Profile of William M. Layson (PhD '63) and the Presidential Fellowships in Physics 2001 Full Edition "Molding the Flow of Light" by John D. Joannopoulos "The Magic of Matter Waves" by Wolfgang Ketterle "Free the Quarks" by Krishna Rajagopal Also in this issue // Studio Physics at MIT by John W. Belcher Faculty Profile // Francis E. Low: Coming of Age as a Physicist in Postwar America by David Kaiser
