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

Professor Ard Louis speaks to Ursule Demael about the contributions of theoretical physics to understanding biological evolution and self-assembly.

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 Department of Physics is delighted to confirm the appointment of Professor Shivaji Sondhi to the University’s Wykeham Professorship of Physics, a Leverhulme International Professorship, and the Tencent Chair of Theoretical Physics.

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, an unconventional telescope buried under the South Pole, began full operations 10 years ago on 13 May 2011. Since then, IceCube has been watching the cosmos and collecting data continuously for a decade.

Emeritus Professor Frank Close OBE has been elected Fellow of the Royal Society in recognition of his extraordinarily effective work in explaining profound concepts in physics at all levels of society including in parliament and to the general public.

The Department of Physics is sorry to announce the death of Professor David Brink FRS on 8 March 2021.

'Glashow resonance' event observed in IceCube Neutrino Observatory.

Wilber Lim is a theoretical physics graduate student at the Department of Physics – we find out what a typical day might look like for him...

It is with great sadness that the Department of Physics announces the death of Jack Paton on 2 October 2020, aged 82.