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Lukin group's quantum processor with 48 logical qubits has been named the 2024 Breakthroughs of the Year by Physics World.

December 20, 2024

Physics World 2024 Breakthrough of the Year has been awarded to Mikhail Lukin, Dolev Bluvstein and colleagues at Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and QuEra Computing, and independently to Hartmut Neven and colleagues at Google...

Barandes, Deslauriers Receive Excellence in Teaching Award

November 05, 2024

Congratulations to Jacob Barandes and Louis Deslauriers on receiving the new Anya Bernstein Bassett Award for Excellence in Teaching! The award is designed to highlight the integral role that non-ladder faculty play in the FAS teaching community and...

Loeb Lectures in Physics: Phiala Shanahan (MIT), Nov 18-21, 2024

October 22, 2024

PHIALA SHANAHAN Class of 1957 Career Development Associate Professor of Physics, MIT all lectures will be held in Jefferson Lab 250 and streamed live through zoom (please see the link below) November 18 @4:30PM Colloquium: "The building blocks of the...

Yao Wins I.I. Rabi Prize

October 15, 2024

Congratulations to Prof. Norman Yao, the 2025 recipient of the I.I. Rabi Prize in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics "for pioneering contributions to broad areas of atomic, molecular, and optical physics, including quantum information, metrology, and...

Prof. Julia Mundy Promotion

July 11, 2024

Congratulations to Prof. Julia Mundy, who was promoted to the position of John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Natural Sciences and of Engineering and Applied Sciences, in recognition of her outstanding research, teaching, and mentorship! Mundy is...

Tai Tsun Wu (1933-2024)

July 23, 2024

Dear Colleagues, I learned today from Sau Lan Wu that Tai Tsun Wu passed away in Palo Alto, California, at 10:48pm, on July 19, 2024. Tai was a formidable faculty member of both the Harvard physics department and SEAS. He was known for his groundbreaking...

Doyle Awarded Norman F. Ramsey Prize

October 24, 2023

Prof. John Doyle is one of three winners of the 2024 Norman F. Ramsey Prize in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, and in Precision Tests of Fundamental Laws and Symmetries. The prize, created in honor of former Harvard faculty member Norman Ransey...

Yao Receives National Brown Investigator Award

May 31, 2024

The Brown Institute for Basic Sciences at Caltech announced the 2024 class of Brown Investigators. The cohort, the first selected through the newly formed Brown Institute for Basic Sciences, comprises eight distinguished mid-career faculty working on...

Argüelles-Delgado Named a CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar

May 28, 2024

Congratulations to Prof. Carlos Argüelles-Delgado on being named a CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar this year! The CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars Program is designed to accelerate the development of early career researchers in their pivotal first years as...

Winners of 2024 Harvard Student Prizes

May 07, 2024

On May 6, 2024, the department celebrated the achievements of our undergraduate and graduate students with awards presentation: Jack T. Sanderson Memorial Prize in Physics for graduating seniors with the highest GPA among concentration courses Mincheol...

Vishwanath elected to the National Academy of Sciences

May 01, 2024

Ashvin Vishwanath, George Vasmer Leverett Professor of Physics, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a private, nonprofit organization of the country’s leading researchers that recognizes and...

Georgi elected AAAS fellow

April 19, 2024

Congratulations to Howard Georgi, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and Harvard College Professor, on his election to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) fellow for elucidating the role of symmetries in quantum field theory. In...