News: Faculty

2026

Clay Córdova awarded 2026 New Horizons in Physics Prize

April 20, 2026


A ‘blob’ in a tank is helping scientists tease out the secrets of turbulence

April 16, 2026

The Blob


Dark matter, explained

April 9, 2026

Dark matter pie chart


Vincenzo Vitelli and Carlos Wagner named Association for the Advancement of Science fellows in 2026

March 27, 2026

Vitelli,Wagner


Bonnie Fleming joins UChicago Physics Department’s full-time faculty

March 10, 2026

Bonnie Fleming


Binding Energy: Books by Chicago Physics Faculty

March 3, 2026

Books by UChicago physicists


UChicago scientists clock a driving factor in the evolution of error correction

February 26, 2026

speedometer in red


UChicago scientists find better way to make infrared light—using quantum dots

February 26, 2026


Irvine research on turbulent decay featured on the cover of PNAS

February 23, 2026

W. Irvine research in PNAS


Doomsday Clock ticks down to 85 seconds to midnight in 2026—closest ever to apocalypse

February 9, 2026

2026 bulletin announcement


2025

Tom Witten receives the European Physical Society Statistical and Nonlinear Physics Prize

November 20, 2025


Quantum research centers led by Argonne and Fermilab renewed for five years

November 10, 2025

quantum scientists


Heinrich Jaeger receives the American Physical Society’s 2026 Leo P. Kadanoff Prize

November 10, 2025

H. Jaeger


Peter Littlewood awarded 2025 Institute of Physics Gold Medal - Richard Glazebrook Medal and Prize

October 14, 2025


Abigail Vieregg named a 2025 American Physical Society Fellow

October 13, 2025