Welcome to the Physics Department.
Welcome to the Physics Department.
Welcome to the Physics Department.
Welcome to the Physics Department.
Stanford Physics is a teaching and research department. Our course offerings range from Freshman seminars to advanced graduate classes. We enjoy close connections to Applied Physics and departments at SLAC.
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370 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305
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News Spotlight
The Klystron
Who: Physics research associates Russell, Class of 1925, MA ’27, and Sigurd Varian
When: 1937
Led to: Precise weather forecasts, military defense systems, deep space communications
Cars traveling at different speeds and bunching into groups on a highway...
- In the News
The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, jointly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, has released its first alerts documenting astronomical events spotted by the observatory. Rubin issued 800,000 alerts the...
A light has emerged at the end of the tunnel in the long pursuit of developing quantum computers, which are expected to radically reduce the time needed to perform some complex calculations from thousands of years down to a matter...
Our Research
Undergraduates, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows are mentored in astrophysics, cosmology, particle physics, atomic and laser physics, and condensed matter physics. Check out our research areas below.
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