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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News Spotlight
Nothing escapes a black hole … or does it? In the 1970s, the physicist Stephen Hawking described a subtle process by which black holes can “evaporate,” with some particles evading gravitational oblivion. That phenomenon, now dubbed Hawking radiation, seems at...
An artist's rendering of the LSST Camera showing its major components including lenses, sensor array, and utility trunk. (Greg Stewart/SLAC National Accelerator...
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Risa Wechsler, a cosmologist who directs the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology at SLAC and Stanford University, said it was an extraordinary moment. “There are so many scientists here at SLAC and around the world who will...
Peter Sturrock, in a 1930 school photograph from "The Life and Times of a Dissident Scientist".
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- Faculty
Peter Andrew Sturrock was born 20 March 1924. He wrote about his life and his time in the Stanford Physics Department in "The Life and Times of a Dissident Scientist", published in 2017.
"There was an opening for...
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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