Secretary of Energy, former director of Lawrence Lab Steven Chu to return to Stanford
Nobel Prize-winning physicist and U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu will return to Stanford University after he steps down from his cabinet position. Read More…
UC Berkeley alumnus wins Nobel Prize in physics
UC Berkeley alumnus David Wineland was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics Tuesday along with French physicist Serge Haroche for their work with quantum optics. Read More…
UC Berkeley physicist Saul Perlmutter awarded Nobel Prize
UC Berkeley professor Saul Perlmutter and two other scientists won a Nobel Prize in Physics for their groundbreaking discovery that the universe is expanding at an accelerating speed, overturning the previously held belief that the universe was contracting. Perlmutter, also an astrophysicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, will receive Read More…