2020 Nobel Prize winner Andrea Ghez will give the University of Chicago’s fourth Maria Goeppert-Mayer lecture, titled “The Monster at the Heart of our Galaxy,” on Thursday, Oct. 22, at 3:30 p.m. U.S. Central time. Watch a live stream of the lecture: https://physics.uchicago.edu/events/event/1584/
Nobel Prize
Lithium is in the news. The 2019 Nobel Prize for chemistry was awarded to three scientists for transforming our lives and helping to save our climate. Our three Nobel laureates invented ways of making batteries using lithium, with metal and later with compounds.
Early Tuesday morning, three physicists—James Peebles, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz—were rewarded for decades seminal contributions to advancing science with a phone call from Stockholm. This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded “for contributions to our understanding of the evolution of the universe and Earth’s place in the cosmos.”
Join us on Wednesday, Sept. 25, at 6 p.m. at the Pritzker Auditorium in Chicago for a special event celebrating the life and legacy of Leon Lederman and looking forward to the future of particle physics. Presented by the Chicago Council on Science and Technology and Fermilab, in conjunction with the the Chicago Public Library, the program will include presentations, a question-and-answer panel with physicists and a miniature physics slam featuring students from IMSA.
From The New York Times, Oct. 2, 2018: The Nobel committee recognized the scientists for their work in using light to make miniature tools.
Takaaki Kajita, along with Arthur B. McDonald, won the 2015 Nobel Prize in physics for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass.
Fermilab congratulates the 2015 Nobel Prize winners, Takaaki Kajita and Arthur McDonald, and their colleagues on the Super-Kamiokande and SNO experiments!
Experiments at Fermilab and other laboratories are investigating neutrino oscillations in detail to discover the physics beyond the Standard Model.
On Nov. 20, in an event hosted by the House Science and National Labs Caucus, the U.S. particle physics community celebrated the U.S. role in the discovery of the Higgs boson and the 2013 physics Nobel Prize on Capitol Hill.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences today awarded the Nobel Prize in physics to theorists Peter Higgs and Francois Englert to recognize their work developing the theory of what is now known as the Higgs field, which gives elementary particles mass. U.S. scientists played a significant role in advancing the theory and in discovering the particle that proves the existence of the Higgs field, the Higgs boson.