Tag: Amir Yacoby

  • Nation & World

    Global helium shortage slams brakes at Harvard labs

    Latest helium shortage is impacting scientific research, equipment, and progress of grad students.

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    Markos Hankin fills helium tanks at the Helium Recovery Facility at Harvard.
  • Nation & World

    10 join American Academy of Arts & Sciences

    The American Academy of Arts & Sciences announced its newest members, including 10 from the Harvard community.

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    Harvard partners with national labs on quantum computing

    The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the U.S. Department of Energy announced the creation of five new Quantum Information Science Research Centers across the country. Harvard researchers will play important roles in three of the centers.

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    A close-up view of a quantum compute
  • Nation & World

    10 faculty elected to National Academy of Sciences

    Ten Harvard University scientists have been elected by their peers to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in recognition of “their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.” Two Harvard scientists also received awards from the NAS.

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    National Academy of Sciences
  • Nation & World

    MRI, on a molecular scale

    A team of scientists led by Professor of Physics and of Applied Physics Amir Yacoby has developed a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system that can produce nanoscale images, and may one day allow researchers to peer into the atomic structure of individual molecules.

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  • Nation & World

    Elegant entanglement

    Harvard scientists have taken a critical step toward building a quantum computer — a device that could someday harness subatomic particles such as electrons to perform calculations far faster than the most powerful supercomputers.

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    Progress in quantum computing

    Engineers and physicists at Harvard have managed to capture light in tiny diamond pillars embedded in silver, releasing a stream of single photons at a controllable rate.

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  • Nation & World

    An unprecedented admissions year

    Almost 35,000 students applied to Harvard College for admission to the Class of 2015. Letters of admission and email notifications were sent to 2,158 students, 6.2 percent of the record pool of 34,950. More than 60 percent of the admitted students will receive need-based scholarships averaging more than $40,000.

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