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Dr Rebecca Bowler has been awarded the Institute of Physics’ Henry Moseley Medal and Prize 2021, and elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Physics.

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.

Sir Martin Wood FRS (1927-2021)

Oxford University spin-out, Quantum Dice, has been awarded the Institute of Physics’ Business Start-up Award 2021.

Oxford physicists are delighted to hear that NASA has confirmed its latest Earth science mission: Investigation of Convective Updrafts (INCUS).

Dr Duncan Watson-Parris and Professor Philip Stier in the Department of Physics are bringing together leading researchers from around the world for a United Nations ITU AI for Good: AI for Climate Science

A team from Oxford has had a breakthrough in improving the repetition rate and efficiency of laser-driven plasma accelerators; these accelerators could revolutionise many areas of science and technology as they can accelerate particles to high energies in

Dr Alexandra Ramadan is one of six early career researchers to be awarded a Rank Prize Research Visionary Award.

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

Professor Julia Yeomans has been awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Lennard-Jones Lectureship 2021.

Emeritus Wykeham Professor David Sherrington comments on Giorgio Parisi’s Nobel Prize in Physics 2021

Professor Graham Ross, theoretical particle physicist, passed away on 31 October 2021.