Tag: Harvard’s Department of Physics

  • Nation & World

    Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr.

    At the Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on April 7, 2015, the Minute honoring the life and service of the Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr., Higgins Professor of Physics, Emeritus, was spread upon the records. Professor Ramsey received the Nobel Prize in 1989 for inventing the separated oscillatory field method and the hydrogen…

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  • Nation & World

    Learning from toys

    Using magnetic toys as inspiration, researchers tease out structures that echo self-assembled clusters of atoms and molecules.

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    Quantum gas microscope created

    Physicists have created a quantum gas microscope that can be used to observe single atoms at temperatures so low the particles follow the rules of quantum mechanics, behaving in bizarre ways.

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