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PAH prove a promising new tool to probe the AGN-host galaxy connection

St Peter’s Collegue alumnus, Terence Meaden, is co-author of Going for Cold, the Springer biography of Kurt Mendelssohn. Here he looks at how the Clarendon began its rise to fame in the study of low temperature physics.

The UK’s five-strong school team all brought home medals in this year’s International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysicists at the University of Oxford are delighted that the Africa Millimetre Telescope (AMT) project has been given the green light – the first step towards having a radio telescope in Namibia.

Professor Philip Stier, Head of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics at Oxford, has been elected President of the Atmospheric Sciences division of the European Geosciences Union, the leading organisation for Earth, planetary and space science resear

We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews.

We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews.

School students investigate stereotyping in their environments

Dr Judith Hillier from the Department of Education has been awarded the Institute of Physics’ Marie Curie-Sklowdowska Medal and Prize 2021, and elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Physics.

Having followed in his footsteps at the Princeton Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Halley Professor of Physics Raymond Pierrehumbert reflects on Syukuro Manabe’s Nobel Prize-winning work

Professor Daniela Bortoletto has been awarded honorary fellowship of the Institute of Physics

Professor Tim Palmer has been awarded honorary fellowship of the Institute of Physics in recognition of his long and remarkable career