School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh
Affiliation | EPCC, Institute of Physics |
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Campus | James Clerk Maxwell Building, King's Buildings, Edinburgh, Scotland |
Website | www |
The University of Edinburgh School of Physics and Astronomy is the physics department of the University of Edinburgh. The School was formed in 1993 by a merger of the Department of Physics and the Department of Astronomy, both at the University of Edinburgh. The Department of Physics itself was a merger between the Department of Natural Philosophy and the Department of Mathematical Physics in the late 1960s. The School is part of the University's College of Science and Engineering.[1][2]
Institutes
Institutions and research groups based within the school include:
- Institute for Astronomy (IfA) – One of the UK's major centres of astronomical research, specialising in survey astronomy, cosmology, active galaxies and the formation of stars and planets.
- Institute for Condensed Matter and Complex Systems (ICMCS)
- Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics (IPNP)
- Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics – A new centre established in 2012 to "seek an even deeper understanding of how the universe works."[3]
The school is housed in the James Clerk Maxwell Building on the University's King's Buildings campus.
Notable people
Catherine Heymans, the incumbent Astronomer Royal for Scotland, is a professor at the School of Physics and Astronomy, and is the course organiser for the pre-honours Introductory Astrophysics course.[4][5]
Five winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics are associated with the University: Charles Glover Barkla (X-ray), Edward Appleton (Ionospheric Physics, Radar), Max Born (Quantum Mechanics), Igor Tamm (Particle Physics, Cherenkov Radiation, Phonon, Tokamak) and Peter Higgs (Higgs Boson, Higgs Mechanism, Higgs Field).[6] Further notable physicists associated with the University include Thomas Young, Joseph Black, James Clerk Maxwell, David Brewster, Peter Guthrie Tait, Klaus Fuchs, C. G. Darwin, Nicholas Kemmer, David Olive, John Polkinghorne, Tom Kibble, Michael Cates, Fabiola Gianotti, Neil Turok.[7][8][9]
See also
References
- ^ "About the School of Physics and Astronomy". University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
- ^ "Physics Quality Profiles, Research Assessment Exercise 2008". Retrieved 1 August 2012.
- ^ "University to support new physics research". University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 4 August 2012.
- ^ "Catherine Heymans". roe.ac.uk. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
- ^ "Catherine Heymans". www.ph.ed.ac.uk. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
- ^ List of Nobel laureates affiliated with the University of Edinburgh
- ^ Guerlac, Henry (1970–1980). "Black, Joseph". Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Vol. 2. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 173–183. ISBN 978-0-684-10114-9.
- ^ James Clerk Maxwell
- ^ "Tait, Peter Guthrie (TT848PG)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
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