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 Meet...Jack Harrison We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. 12 October 2023 Second award for Big Data: ATLAS project The Big Data: ATLAS team has been has been recognised with a second award: Outstanding Partner in this year’s Institute for Research in Schools (IRIS) Awards. 3 October 2023 Big Data: ATLAS wins SEPnet Public Engagement Award The Big Data: ATLAS team has been has been awarded the Partnership Award in the South East Physics Network (SEPnet) Public Engagement Awards 2023 that took place on 11 September 2023. 2 October 2023 Dr Wroe wins SEPnet Public Engagement Award Oxford alumnus Dr Laurence Wroe has been awarded the Newcomer Award in the South East Physics Network (SEPnet) Public Engagement Awards 2023 that took place on 11 September 2023. 2 October 2023 Dr Hird and Dr Shirley recognised by SEPnet Dr Thomas Hird and Dr Katherine Shirley were both highly commended in the South East Physics Network (SEPnet) Public Engagement Awards 2023. 2 October 2023 JWST atmosphere reconnaissance of TRAPPIST-1 b Dr Jake Taylor from Oxford's Department of Physics is one of a team of scientists led by the Université de Montréal to analyse data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) of the TRAPPIST-1 exoplanetary system. 25 September 2023 Professor Peter Norreys recognised by ANS Professor Peter Norreys has been awarded the American Nuclear Society’s Edward Teller Award. 19 September 2023 Professor John Cardy awarded Breakthrough Prize Professor John Cardy, an Emeritus Fellow at All Souls College, University of Oxford, has today been named as joint winner of the 2023 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. 14 September 2023 Meet...Sophie Paszynska We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. 11 September 2023 Dr Gruszka named Vallee Scholar Dr Dominika Gruszka from the Department of Physics and the Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery has been named as one of six 2023 Vallee Scholars. 7 September 2023 Inspiring the next generation of quantum physicists Year 12 students get a taste for a career in quantum technologies 4 September 2023 New insights into Neptune's dark spot Astronomers, led by Professor Patrick Irwin from the University of Oxford, have observed a large dark spot in Neptune’s atmosphere, with an unexpected smaller bright spot adjacent to it. 24 August 2023 Load More
Meet...Jack Harrison We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. 12 October 2023
Second award for Big Data: ATLAS project The Big Data: ATLAS team has been has been recognised with a second award: Outstanding Partner in this year’s Institute for Research in Schools (IRIS) Awards. 3 October 2023
Big Data: ATLAS wins SEPnet Public Engagement Award The Big Data: ATLAS team has been has been awarded the Partnership Award in the South East Physics Network (SEPnet) Public Engagement Awards 2023 that took place on 11 September 2023. 2 October 2023
Dr Wroe wins SEPnet Public Engagement Award Oxford alumnus Dr Laurence Wroe has been awarded the Newcomer Award in the South East Physics Network (SEPnet) Public Engagement Awards 2023 that took place on 11 September 2023. 2 October 2023
Dr Hird and Dr Shirley recognised by SEPnet Dr Thomas Hird and Dr Katherine Shirley were both highly commended in the South East Physics Network (SEPnet) Public Engagement Awards 2023. 2 October 2023
JWST atmosphere reconnaissance of TRAPPIST-1 b Dr Jake Taylor from Oxford's Department of Physics is one of a team of scientists led by the Université de Montréal to analyse data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) of the TRAPPIST-1 exoplanetary system. 25 September 2023
Professor Peter Norreys recognised by ANS Professor Peter Norreys has been awarded the American Nuclear Society’s Edward Teller Award. 19 September 2023
Professor John Cardy awarded Breakthrough Prize Professor John Cardy, an Emeritus Fellow at All Souls College, University of Oxford, has today been named as joint winner of the 2023 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. 14 September 2023
Meet...Sophie Paszynska We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. 11 September 2023
Dr Gruszka named Vallee Scholar Dr Dominika Gruszka from the Department of Physics and the Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery has been named as one of six 2023 Vallee Scholars. 7 September 2023
Inspiring the next generation of quantum physicists Year 12 students get a taste for a career in quantum technologies 4 September 2023
New insights into Neptune's dark spot Astronomers, led by Professor Patrick Irwin from the University of Oxford, have observed a large dark spot in Neptune’s atmosphere, with an unexpected smaller bright spot adjacent to it. 24 August 2023
