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Brain Workout" for Physics Teachers at the Cavendish Laboratory

17 July 2014

Thirty-seven physics teachers attended the three day Rutherford Physics Partnership funded Physics Teachers Cambridge Residential meeting and held alongside the Senior Physics Challenge .

2014 Institute of Physics Awards

1 July 2014

We are pleased to announce that three members of the Department have received prestigious awards from the Institute of Physics . Swan Medal and prize Professor Michael Payne For the development of computational techniques that have revolutionised materials design and facilitated the industrial application of quantum...

Personal Promotions

12 June 2014

Personal Promotions The outcome of the 2014 Senior Academic Promotions round has now been published in the Reporter and I am very happy to offer my congratulations, on behalf of the Department, to our new Professors, Crispin Barnes, Russell Cowburn and Zoran Hadzibabic as well as our newly promoted Readers, Ben Gripaios...

Exposing ‘evil twins’

16 May 2014

Researchers from the Cavendish Laboratory have designed a new type of sensing mechanism, combining a unique twisting property of light with frequency doubling to identify different chiral forms of molecules with extremely high sensitivity, which could be useful in the development of new drugs. The results are published in...

Prof Richard Hills, Emeritus Professor of Radio Astronomy, elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society.

1 May 2014

We are delighted to report that Professor Richard Hills, Emeritus Professor of Radio Astronomy at the Cavendish Laboratory, has been elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society. The citation notes his work on the development of radio astronomy at millimetre wavelengths and in particular his roles in the James Clerk...

Cavendish awarded Athena Swan Gold award

1 May 2014

I am delighted to announce that the Cavendish Laboratory has been awarded an Athena Swan Gold Award . Our award, along with the other winners, will be published in the Times Higher Education supplement today. We are the first Department in Cambridge to reach this very high standard and, we believe, the first Physics...

Bulletproof nuclei? Stem cells exhibit unusual absorption property.

22 April 2014

A team of University of Cambridge researchers including biologists, engineers and physicists, have published a paper in the journal Nature Materials in which they report having observed auxeticity in the nuclei of embryonic stem cells, master cells within the body which can turn into any other type of cell. See more at...

Phase Transiting to a New Quantum Universe

11 April 2014

Recent insight and discovery of a new class of quantum transition opens the way for a whole new subfield of materials physics and quantum technologies. This week an article in Nature Physics reports the results on quantum properties of ferroelectric crystals, led by Stephen Rowley, together with Siddharth Saxena and...

Cavendish PhD student wins SET for Britain Silver Medal for Physics

19 March 2014

The Parliamentary and Scientific Committee runs the SET for BRITAIN event in collaboration with seven scientific societies including the IOP and with private sector and institutional sponsorship. The winner of this year's Silver Medal and £2,000 was Jan Mertens , a PhD student in the NanoPhotonics Group of the Cavendish...

Smart Glass - Could antireflective self-cleaning windows increase the efficiency of solar cells?

21 February 2014

A newly-developed coating could enable buildings to have anti-reflective self-cleaning windows and could increase the efficiency of solar cells. Porous films, which use similar properties to those seen in moth eyes in combination with nanoparticles, are being developed into robust, self-cleaning antireflective coatings for...

Brain Workout" for Physics Teachers at the Cavendish Laboratory

2014 Institute of Physics Awards

Personal Promotions

Exposing ‘evil twins’

Prof Richard Hills, Emeritus Professor of Radio Astronomy, elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society.

Cavendish awarded Athena Swan Gold award

Bulletproof nuclei? Stem cells exhibit unusual absorption property.

Phase Transiting to a New Quantum Universe

Cavendish PhD student wins SET for Britain Silver Medal for Physics

Smart Glass - Could antireflective self-cleaning windows increase the efficiency of solar cells?

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