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October 16, 2024
The Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize recognizes and encourages outstanding theoretical or experimental contributions to condensed…

10/24/1972 Construction of a new telescope observatory building, the Student Observatory.

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October 7, 2024
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October 1, 2024
Early morning calls, champagne, a deluge of invites, hanging out with Swedish royalty.

Alfred Zong & Jeongwan Haah

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September 30, 2024
Introducing Alfred Zong:

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September 30, 2024
In the hills west of the campus, tucked in between the Stanford Golf Course Club and Center For Advanced Study In Behavioral Sciences, lies the…
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September 25, 2024
Karl Schwarzschild first stumbled upon black holes in 1916, but for a long time they weren’t really a thing.

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September 23, 2024
Kathryn Ann “Kam” Moler, the Marvin Chodorow Professor in the School of Humanities and…
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September 18, 2024
Peter Sturrock, distinguished physicist and emeritus professor at Stanford University, passed away peacefully in his home, surrounded by his friends…

W.L. Kimmy Wu, SLAC associate staff scientist and Panofsky Fellow

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September 16, 2024
David Cesar, Julia Gonski and W.L. Kimmy Wu will pursue research in X-ray and ultrafast science, new fundamental physics and…

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August 30, 2024
A summer STEM academic boot camp for veterans helps pave a path to higher education.August 27, 2024

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August 22, 2024
Monika Schleier-Smith, an associate professor in the…

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