![]() ![]() 1969 – Murray Gell-Mann PhD ’51 “ for his contributions and discoveries concerning the classification of elementary particles and their interactions.”.1972 – John Robert Schrieffer ‘ 53 (co-recipient with John Bardeen and Leon Neil Cooper) “ for their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory.”.1976 – Burton Richter ’52 PhD ’56 and Samuel Chao Chung Ting, Thomas Dudley Cabot Institute Professor of Physics, “ for their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind.”.Anderson and Sir Nevill Mott) “ for their fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems.” 1977 – John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, former Rad Lab employee, (co-recipient with Philip W.1979 – Steven Weinberg, former Professor of Physics (1969-1973), (co-recipient with Sheldon Lee Glashow and Abdus Salam) “ for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current.”.Lederman and Melvin Schwartz) “for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino.” 1988 – Jack Steinberger, a researcher with the Radiation Laboratory’s antenna group (co-recipient with Leon M.Dehmelt and Wolfgang Paul “for the development of the ion trap technique.” Dehmelt and Wolfgang Paul), “ for the invention of the separated oscillatory fields method and its use in the hydrogen maser and other atomic clocks”, the other half jointly to Hans G. Ramsey, former Radiation Laboratory employee (co-recipient with Hans G. Cech, a former MIT Biology postdoc) in Chemistry for the “discovery of catalytic properties of RNA.” 1989 – Sidney Altman ’60 (co-recipient with Thomas R. ![]() Taylor) “ for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics.” Stratton Professor of Physics (co-recipient with Richard E. Friedman, Professor of Physics Emeritus and former Physics Department Head (1983-1988), and Henry W. Brockhouse) “ for the development of the neutron diffraction technique.” Shull, former Professor of Physics Emeritus (1986–2001) (co-recipient with Bertram N. Phillips ’76 (co-recipient with Steven Chu, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji) “ for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light.” Tsui) “f or their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations.” Laughlin PhD ’79 (co-recipient with Horst L. Wieman ’73 “ for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates.” MacArthur Professor of Physics, and Carl E. Cornell PhD ’90, Wolfgang Ketterle, John D. David Politzer “ for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction.” 2004 – Frank Wilczek, Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics (co-recipient with David J.Mather) “ for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation.” 2006 – George Smoot ’66, PhD ’71 (co-recipient with John C.Schmidt) “ for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae.” Riess ’92 (co-recipient with Saul Perlmutter and Brian P. Thorne) “ for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves.” 2017 – Rainer Weiss ’55 PhD ’62, Professor of Physics, Emeritus (2001–present) (co-recipient with Barry C.2020 – Andrea Ghez ’87 (co-recipient with Reinhard Genzel) “ for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy.”.Below is a list of many of our celebrated physicists. We have been very fortunate to have current and former faculty, former employees, and alumni of our program honored by being awarded a Nobel Prize. Pappalardo Fellowships show submenu for “Pappalardo Fellowships”. ![]() Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment.Research Areas show submenu for “Research Areas”.Mentoring Programs Information show submenu for “Mentoring Programs Information”.PhD in Physics, Statistics, and Data Science.For Graduate Students show submenu for “For Graduate Students”.For Undergraduate Students show submenu for “For Undergraduate Students”.Academic Programs show submenu for “Academic Programs”. ![]()
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