Latest news and comment Audience - Any Audience -AlumniIndustrySchools, prospective students and communityResearchUndergraduatesGraduatesInternational Year of QuantumDepartment of Physics (requires login) Research theme - Any Research theme -Accelerator physicsAstronomy and astrophysicsBiological physicsClimate physicsExoplanets and planetary physicsFields, strings, and quantum dynamicsFundamental particles and interactionsInstrumentationLasers and high energy density scienceParticle astrophysics & cosmologyPhotovoltaics and nanosciencePlasma physicsQuantum information and computationQuantum materialsQuantum optics & ultra-cold matter Sub-department - Any Sub-department -AstrophysicsAtmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary PhysicsAtomic and Laser PhysicsCondensed Matter PhysicsParticle PhysicsProfessional and support servicesRudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics Professor Tim Palmer: revolutionising weather and climate prediction On 6 December, the Department of Physics held a symposium to celebrate the remarkable career of Professor Tim Palmer CBE FRS 8 December 2022 Marking 150 years of first Clarendon Laboratory On 7 December current and emeritus staff, including Bill Hayes who first came to Oxford 67 years ago, marked the 150th anniversary of the completion of the first Clarendon Laboratory in 1872. 8 December 2022 Pressure stabilises delicate electromagnetic state at room temperature An international team of researchers has recently discovered that a subtle magnetic and electric hybrid response that is observed in some magnetic insulators can be strongly enhanced by application of pressure. 8 December 2022 New JWST data reveals exoplanet atmosphere first University of Oxford academics have contributed to the most comprehensive molecular and chemical analysis of an exoplanet’s atmosphere, enabled by new data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). 23 November 2022 Obituary: Professor Donald Perkins CBE FRS It is with great sadness that we learned Emeritus Professor Donald Perkins CBE, FRS died on 30 October in Oxford. 23 November 2022 Building the future: developing next-gen materials at Oxford World-class vacuum deposition capabilities to develop next-gen advanced functional materials 23 November 2022 New analysis of Winchcombe meteorite Researchers from the University of Oxford’s Departments of Physics and Earth Sciences have contributed to a highly detailed analysis of the Winchcombe meteorite which fell to Earth last year. 17 November 2022 Research excellence continues with Met Office-Oxford partnership The University of Oxford has successfully renewed its membership of the Met Office Academic Partnership (MOAP) for a further three years. 9 November 2022 Meet...Martha Buckley We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. 8 November 2022 Meet...Jenny Woods We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. 8 November 2022 Tonga volcano had highest plume ever recorded A new analysis led by Oxford University researchers has shown the devastating Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai eruption in January 2022 created the tallest volcanic plume ever recorded. 4 November 2022 Changing culture around public engagement University funding launches the Collaborative Engagement Network in Physics 2 November 2022 Load More
Professor Tim Palmer: revolutionising weather and climate prediction On 6 December, the Department of Physics held a symposium to celebrate the remarkable career of Professor Tim Palmer CBE FRS 8 December 2022
Marking 150 years of first Clarendon Laboratory On 7 December current and emeritus staff, including Bill Hayes who first came to Oxford 67 years ago, marked the 150th anniversary of the completion of the first Clarendon Laboratory in 1872. 8 December 2022
Pressure stabilises delicate electromagnetic state at room temperature An international team of researchers has recently discovered that a subtle magnetic and electric hybrid response that is observed in some magnetic insulators can be strongly enhanced by application of pressure. 8 December 2022
New JWST data reveals exoplanet atmosphere first University of Oxford academics have contributed to the most comprehensive molecular and chemical analysis of an exoplanet’s atmosphere, enabled by new data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). 23 November 2022
Obituary: Professor Donald Perkins CBE FRS It is with great sadness that we learned Emeritus Professor Donald Perkins CBE, FRS died on 30 October in Oxford. 23 November 2022
Building the future: developing next-gen materials at Oxford World-class vacuum deposition capabilities to develop next-gen advanced functional materials 23 November 2022
New analysis of Winchcombe meteorite Researchers from the University of Oxford’s Departments of Physics and Earth Sciences have contributed to a highly detailed analysis of the Winchcombe meteorite which fell to Earth last year. 17 November 2022
Research excellence continues with Met Office-Oxford partnership The University of Oxford has successfully renewed its membership of the Met Office Academic Partnership (MOAP) for a further three years. 9 November 2022
Meet...Martha Buckley We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. 8 November 2022
Meet...Jenny Woods We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. 8 November 2022
Tonga volcano had highest plume ever recorded A new analysis led by Oxford University researchers has shown the devastating Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai eruption in January 2022 created the tallest volcanic plume ever recorded. 4 November 2022
Changing culture around public engagement University funding launches the Collaborative Engagement Network in Physics 2 November 2022
