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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.

July 1, 2025
Categories: In Remembrance, Faculty/Emeritus, Atomic Physics

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Julian Picard: Chopping microwaves, sharpening instincts

August 12, 2019
Categories: Profile, Students & Alumni, Particle Physics Experiment
Liquid crystal textures

Finding the Magic in Liquid Crystals

August 8, 2019
Categories: Faculty/Emeritus

Daniel Freedman wins Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

August 6, 2019
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Quantum Gravity and Field Theory
Crystal of bismuth has a staircase-like appearance because of the repeating honeycomb-like structure of its atoms.

New insights into bismuth’s character

August 6, 2019
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Experiment, Condensed Matter Theory
Illustration of related particle collisions

Seeking new physics, scientists borrow from social networks

July 25, 2019
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Students & Alumni, High Energy and Particle Theory, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory
MIT dome in Spring

New faces in the School of Science faculty

July 23, 2019
Categories: Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment, Quantum Gravity and Field Theory
MIT dome in Spring

Meet the 2019 tenured professors in the School of Science

July 10, 2019
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory, High Energy and Particle Theory
MIT dome in Spring

Seven MIT faculty win 2019 Presidential Early Career Awards

July 10, 2019
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Experiment, Quantum Information Science, High Energy and Particle Theory, Nuclear Physics Experiment, Particle Physics Experiment
Newton's cradle

Have We Come to the End of Physics?

July 5, 2019
Categories: Faculty/Emeritus
MIT dome in Spring

Seven MIT educators honored for digital learning innovation

July 2, 2019
Categories: Awards/Honors, Education, Faculty/Emeritus
Artemis, the first ground-based telescope of the SPECULOOS Northern Observatory (SNO)

3Q: Julien de Wit PhD ’14 on searching for red worlds in the northern skies

June 20, 2019
Categories: Q&A, Students & Alumni, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

Approaching the magnetic singularity

June 20, 2019
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Experiment
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