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Daniel Kleppner, prize-winning physicist, dies at 92

The MIT professor, a recipient of the National Medal of Science, developed technologies that helped pave the way for the Global Positioning System.

June 30, 2025
Categories: In Remembrance, Faculty/Emeritus, Atomic Physics

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Yen-Jie Lee probes particle collision data for clues to the universe’s origins

March 11, 2022
Categories: Profile, Faculty/Emeritus, Nuclear Physics Experiment, Particle Physics Experiment

Physicists steer chemical reactions by magnetic fields and quantum interference

March 8, 2022
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Students & Alumni, Graduate Students, Atomic Physics
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Mildred Dresselhaus: a giant of nanoscience

March 8, 2022
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Condensed Matter Experiment

Institute to Accelerate AI Expects Early Advances

March 1, 2022
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Particle Physics Experiment
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Three questions with Dean Nergis Mavalvala, the Pakistani-American astrophysicist who helped detect gravitational waves

March 3, 2022
Categories: Q&A, In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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New book celebrates trailblazing MIT physicist Mildred Dresselhaus

March 2, 2022
Categories: In Remembrance, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Condensed Matter Experiment

School of Engineering welcomes new faculty

February 28, 2022
Categories: In The News, Undergraduates, Students & Alumni

Festival of Learning centers on guiding students from surviving to thriving

February 24, 2022
Categories: Education, Academic Staff
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Tuning in to invisible waves on the JET tokamak

February 24, 2022
Categories: Profile, Students & Alumni, Graduate Students, Postdocs
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More sensitive X-ray imaging

February 24, 2022
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Students & Alumni, Graduate Students, Condensed Matter Theory, Condensed Matter Experiment
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Physicists observe an exotic “multiferroic” state in an atomically thin material

February 23, 2022
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Postdocs, Condensed Matter Experiment
Mildred Dresselhaus

Exploring the nanoworld

February 23, 2022
Categories: Profile, In Remembrance, In The News
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