This was the site of the world's first atom smasher, built in 1931 by Ernest O. Lawrence, Berkeley's first Nobel laureate. With nine Nobel Prizes in physics held by UC Berkeley faculty and four more ...

Turbulence is ubiquitous — from coffee cups to ocean waves and bumpy flights. And this powerful state isn’t limited to Earth; ...

"The ultimate taxonomy will help education researchers both understand physics lab education broadly and also be able to ...

The graduate program in the Department of Physics leads to the Ph.D. degree. Typically, about 60 full-time graduate students from all over the world (map) are enrolled. Many of our students begin the ...