Physics – MIT Spectrum

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For LIGO’s “Intellectual Father,” a Life of Twists and Turns

MIT Dome at night

QS World University Rankings rates MIT No. 1 in 12 subjects for 2016

Summer 2015

Key to Quantum: Diamonds

Dirk Englund says the next chapter in the history of technology is not simply about faster computers.

Debra Wise, Robert Najarian, and Steven Barkhimer in the 2007 CC@MIT production of Alan Lightman’s Einstein’s Dreams. Photo: Elizabeth Stewart/Libberding Photography

Physicist and Novelist Alan Lightman Looks Back on a Decade of Science on Stage

Spring 2015

Charging Ahead: A New Method for Wireless Power Transfer

John Joannopoulos pioneers wireless cell phone charging.

Co-founder Bayley Wang '14. Image: courtesy of oneTesla

Do Try This at Home: oneTesla’s DIY Kits Electrify Imaginations

Image: public domain

To Physicists, Football is a Gas

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A Lesson in Color, Inspired by a Physics Professor

George F. Smoot '66, PhD '71. Smoot shared the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics for the "discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation."

Nobelists + Crayons + Paper = Winning Portraits

Professor of Physics Marin Soljačić '96 was honored with a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship in 2008 for his work wireless power-charging. Image: Courtesy of the MacArthur Foundation.

WiTricity Doesn’t Need a Plug to Charge Your Smartphone or Heart Pump