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Professor Gavin Salam

Professor Salam recognised by IOP

Professor Gavin Salam FRS has been awarded the 2023 Institute of Physics Paul Dirac Medal and Prize for his profound, wide-ranging and impactful contributions to particle physics.

16 October 2023

Professor James Binney FRS

Professor Binney recognised by IOP

Professor James Binney FRS has been awarded the 2023 Institute of Physics Isaac Newton Medal and Prize for advancing the science of stellar dynamics.

16 October 2023

Professor John Cardy FRS

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

Beecroft building

Exciting new fellowship opportunities for theoretical physicists

We are looking for the most talented early-career theoretical physicists worldwide to join us here at the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics in Oxford.

The orange dots denote the phenotype robustness of different RNA secondary structure phenotypes for length 15 RNA strands versus the fraction f of the total space of sequences that map to that phenotype. The maximum robustness curve (a fractal line) is exactly achieved by some of the RNA secondary structure phenotypes.

Number theory and evolutionary genetics

An interdisciplinary team of mathematicians, engineers, physicists, and medical scientists have uncovered an unexpected link between pure mathematics and genetics.

Clockwise from top left: Dr Glenn Wagner, Professor Steve Simon, Dr Yves Kwan, Professor Siddharth Parameswaran and Dr Nick Bultinck

Oxford theorists recognised with Frontiers of Science Award

A team of physicists from Oxford’s Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics has received a Frontiers of Science Award at the First International Congress of Basic Science in Beijing, China.

Dr Yves Kwan

Alumnus Dr Kwan recognised by IOP

Dr Yves Kwan has been named runner up in the Sam Edwards Thesis Prize awarded by the Institute of Physics’ Theory of Condensed Matter Group.

The Milky Way seen through a neutrino lens (blue).

A new window on the cosmos

Data collected by an observatory in Antarctica has produced our first view of the Milky Way galaxy through the lens of neutrino particles. Emeritus Professor Subir Sarkar from the University of Oxford comments in The Conversation.

Dr David Hosking

Thesis treble for Dr David Hosking

Department of Physics alumnus, Dr David Hosking, has been awarded another two prizes for his University of Oxford thesis, ‘The decay of MHD turbulence and the primordial origin of magnetic fields in cosmic voids’.

Dr Andrew Mummery

Thesis recognition for Dr Andrew Mummery

Dr Andrew Mummery from Oxford’s Department of Physics has been recognised by the International Astronomical Union and the Royal Astronomical Society for his thesis.

Book cover: The Language of Symmetry

The language of symmetry

Three physicists from Oxford have contributed to a new book, 'The Language of Symmetry', out today, 16 May 2023.

A reconstructed event in the Compact Muon Solenoid detector at the Large Hadron Collider

A fractal tree of quarks and gluons

A startlingly beautiful image that has just been published was inspired by an algorithm proposed by theorists from the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics at the University of Oxford in 2018.