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STEM for Britain Silver medal for Marlini Simoes

11 March 2021

Marlini Simoes, PhD researcher in the fracture and shock physics group in the Cavendish Laboratory has been awarded the silver medal at the STEM for Britain 2021 poster competition. In her research, supervised by Dr Chris Braithwaite, Marlini conducts dynamic impact tests at high velocities. Her poster “3D printing Smart...

We've Misplaced 96% of the Universe - Cavendish PhD student gives TEDxLondonWomen talk

9 March 2021

PhD student Claire Malone, in her final year of her PhD in the High Energy Physics group, was recently invited to give a talk as part of the TEDxLondonWomen series. Her talk takes us on her journey to find the missing dark matter and dark energy that make up 96% of the universe around us. To watch the talk on YouTube here...

Isaac Physics offering to provide FREE GCSE Physics workbooks to 8000 students

28 January 2021

Isaac Physics is offering to provide FREE GCSE Physics workbooks to 8000 students who have difficulty accessing online resources. These 182 page books, which contain notes, worked examples and practice questions, are normally sold for £1 + P&P but this University of Cambridge project will provide them for free and pay...

Professor Roberto Maiolino awarded a Royal Society Research Professorship

15 January 2021

The Royal Society has announced that Professor Roberto Maiolino has been awarded a Royal Society Research Professorship. The Royal Society citation states that "Professor Roberto Maiolino will use two new cutting- edge facilities to measure the chemical enrichment of galaxies out to the earliest epochs of galaxy formation...

Professor Val Gibson awarded an OBE in The Queens 2021 New Year's Honours

13 January 2021

We are pleased to announce that Professor Val Gibson , Head of the High Energy Physics Group, was awarded an OBE in The Queen's New Years Honours List 2021 for her "services to Science, Women in Science and to Public Engagement."

Quantum projects launched to solve universe’s mysterie

13 January 2021

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is supporting seven projects with a £31 million investment to demonstrate how quantum technologies could solve some of the greatest mysteries in fundamental physics. Researchers from the University of Cambridge have been awarded funding on four of the seven projects. Just as quantum...

Cambridge Centre for Physical Biology Awards for Cavendish Researchers

15 December 2020

We are pleased to announce that the Cambridge Centre for Physical Biology has made the following awards to members of the Cavendish Laboratory:- Dr Diana Fusco , lecturer in the Biological & Soft Systems sector, has been awarded a Pump Priming Grant, jointly with Somenath Baksh i (Engineering) for research into "...

$Prof Jacqui Cole awarded the ACA 2021 B E Warren Diffraction Physics Award$

Prof Jacqui Cole awarded the ACA 2021 B E Warren Diffraction Physics Award

26 November 2020

Prof Jacqueline Cole, Head of the Molecular Engineering Group in the Cavendish Laboratory has been awarded the American Crystallographic Association's 2021 B E Warren Diffraction Physics Award in recognition of her "important recent contribution to the physics of solids or liquids using X-ray, neutron or electron...

Professor John Field, FRS, OBE 1936 to 2020

23 October 2020

We are sad to report that Emeritus Professor John Field FRS, OBE passed away on 21st October 2020. This was following a short, non-Covid related illness. John will be sadly missed by his family and numerous former students and group members, technical and administration staff as well as numerous members of the industrial...

John Adkins 1934 - 2020

31 July 2020

John Adkins 1934 – 2020 Members of the Department will be saddened to learn of the death of John Adkins. John was an outstanding experimentalist who was a member of the Low Temperature Physics Group from the beginning of his PhD programme in 1956. His expertise was in the many complex phenomena found in materials at low...

STEM for Britain Silver medal for Marlini Simoes

We've Misplaced 96% of the Universe - Cavendish PhD student gives TEDxLondonWomen talk

Isaac Physics offering to provide FREE GCSE Physics workbooks to 8000 students

Professor Roberto Maiolino awarded a Royal Society Research Professorship

Professor Val Gibson awarded an OBE in The Queens 2021 New Year's Honours

Quantum projects launched to solve universe’s mysterie

Cambridge Centre for Physical Biology Awards for Cavendish Researchers

Prof Jacqui Cole awarded the ACA 2021 B E Warren Diffraction Physics Award

Professor John Field, FRS, OBE 1936 to 2020

John Adkins 1934 - 2020

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