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Abstract molecule network background.

A speedier solution for molecular biomedical research

New innovative algorithm analyzes NMR readings using quantum computers

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DateJuly 24, 2020July 24, 2020

Jenny Schloss and Matthew Turner.

New tool aids in sensing magnetic fields

It uses NV centers to detect them in various directions

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DateOctober 11, 2018October 15, 2018

Theoretical physicist Lisa Randall, the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science, sees intriguing lines of evidence that tie dark matter to comets in the solar system’s distant Oort cloud, and from there to the 66-million-year-old impact crater on Mexico’s Yucatán coast.

Dramatic chain of events

Physicist Lisa Randall connects dark matter, dinosaur extinction in new book

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DateOctober 26, 2015

Brian Schmidt (left), now a distinguished professor at the Australian National University, received the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics for determining that the universe's expansion was accelerating. His return to campus is a homecoming — he completed his Ph.D. at Harvard and called it "arguably the best time of my life."

The fast-firing universe

Nobel laureate Schmidt, who’ll deliver Loeb and Lee lectures, will discuss rapid expansion he helped to prove, and what’s next

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DateApril 27, 2015

Maine-based sculptor Kim Bernard is spending a year in the Physics Department as artist-in-residence, bringing along an interest in the beauty of movement — which sets her kinetic works apart, a curiosity about the physical laws that underlie her art, and a gregarious determination to make the most of her time at Harvard.

Sculptor finds physics a welcoming space

Bernard brings kinetic vision to artist-in-residence post

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DateMarch 13, 2015

Nobel winner Steven Weinberg brought his thoughts on a “theory of everything” to the Physics Department’s Lee Historical Lecture.

The ever-smaller future of physics

‘Theory of everything’ captures Weinberg’s imagination in Lee Historical Lecture

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DateDecember 5, 2014

Former artist-in-residence at CERN Julius von Bismarck (photo 1) helped open a new Science Center exhibit (photo 2) featuring works by Swiss photographer Andri Pol (right, photo 3) on the people of CERN. Pol is speaking with Alexandra Zingg (left).

Six decades of science as diplomacy

Physics Department, Swiss consulate celebrate CERN

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DateOctober 16, 2014May 2, 2019

Nobel laureate Roy Glauber, who had entered Harvard in the fall of 1941 at the age of 16, reflected on his two years in Los Alamos, N.M., during World War II as part of the Manhattan Project. “I decided I had come into another world entirely,” Glauber said. “God only knows what they were doing up there.”

Reflections on a nuclear mission

Nobel laureate Glauber recalls days at Los Alamos

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DateMay 2, 2013April 22, 2019

Harvard graduate and physics major Michelangelo D'Agostino (left) gives graduate students Yat Shan Au and Tom Dimiduk an overview of the wide-ranging role that data analytics played in Obama's presidential campaign.

Crunching data in the campaign cave

A Renaissance scientist explains how he helped Obama win re-election

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DateMarch 5, 2013May 17, 2019

Michael Tinkham

Faculty of Arts and Sciences — Memorial Minute

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DateMarch 8, 2012

Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Michael D. Smith (right) hosted the second annual Dean's Distinction award ceremony honoring exceptional FAS employees such as James Frazier, director of strength and conditioning for Harvard Athletics.

38 honored with Dean’s Distinction

FAS awards recognize outstanding employees

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DateMarch 3, 2011