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Nergis Mavalvala PhD '97
Research Interests Nergis Mavalvala, Marble Professor of Astrophysics at MIT and a 2010 recipient of a MacArthur “genius” award, is a physicist whose research focuses on the detection of gravitational...
Richard G. Milner
Research Interests QCD structure of proton and nuclei https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-9I0buDi4s Biographical Sketch Richard G. Milner is a professor of physics at MIT and has worked there since 1988. He was born...
Faculty
...physics research. Nuh Gedik Donner Professor of Physics His research centers on using advanced optical techniques for probing and controlling properties of quantum materials. Jeffrey Goldstone Professor of Physics, Emeritus...
Rainer Weiss '55 PhD '62
Research Interests Writing this at 73 and having shed the august responsibilities of a full fledged faculty, it is natural to be retrospective rather than to look at prospects. Currently...
Robert A. Simcoe
Research Interests Spectroscopy of matter in the early universe to search for signatures of the First Stars Physics of diffuse matter at the interface between galaxies and intergalactic space Explosive...
Q&A: Nergis Mavalvala, MIT sciences dean and longtime LIGO physicist
The MacArthur fellow’s efforts to minimize noise in gravitational-wave detection is yielding insights into the quantum behavior of macroscopic objects....