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Joachim Frank a former Cavendish Senior Researcher awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017

5 October 2017

Cambridge alumnus Richard Henderson (Corpus Christi College, 1966) has been jointly awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry , along with former Cambridge University senior research associate Joachim Frank, and Jacques Dubochet from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Before transferring to the US, Prof Joachim Frank...

Cavendish alumni win the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics

4 October 2016

We are delighted to announce that three of our alumni shared in the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics. Prof. David J. Thouless moved from the Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics Department in Cambridge to take up a lectureship in the Solid State Theory group (the early incarnation of the current Theory of Condensed...

Collapsing energy bands to explore their geometric structure

31 May 2016

The geometry and topology of electronic states in solids plays a central role in a wide range of modern condensed-matter systems including graphene or topological insulators. However, experimentally accessing this information has proven to be challenging, especially when the bands are not well-isolated from one another. As...

James Chadwick's Neutron Chamber featured on BBC Radio 4 In Our Time Show

15 April 2016

Prof Val Gibson discussed the James Chadwick's Neutron Chamber device, used in the discovery of the neutron, with Melvyn Bragg on BBC Radio 4's " In our Time " programme on April 14th 2016. More information on James Chadwick's Neutron Chamber can be found on the Department of Physic's Outreach pages .

Will Self in conversation with Prof Malcolm Longair, exploring the work of James Clerk Maxwell in Cambridge

9 December 2015

BBC Radio 4, Maxwell's Genius, episode 5. Will Self in conversation with Prof Malcolm Longair, exploring the work of James Clerk Maxwell in Cambridge. http://bbc.in/1Pflzbu

Professor Gilbert Lonzarich to be awarded the 2015 Kamerlingh Onnes prize

23 June 2015

Professor Gilbert Lonzarich of the Physics department has been selected for the 2015 Kamerlingh Onnes prize, in recognition of his 'visionary experiments concerning the emergence of superconductivity for strongly renormalized quasiparticles at the edge of magnetic order'. The work of Lonzarich - his scientific discoveries...

Professor Sir Sam Edwards CBE FRS

13 May 2015

It is with great sadness that we report the death of Professor Sir Sam Edwards, Cavendish Professor Emeritus of Physics and a Fellow of Gonville & Caius College. He died on 7 May 2015 , aged 87. An undergraduate of Gonville and Caius College, Sam carried out his PhD under Julian Schwinger at Harvard University on the...

Prizewinners Dinner 2014

28 October 2014

The Cavendish Laboratory's Annual Prizewinner's Dinner was held at Peterhouse on Friday 24th October 2014, at which Prof Andy Parker, Head of Department presented the following current students and recent graduates with their prize certificates:- Miss Suna Zekioglu (Emmanuel), the NST Physics IA Prize Miss Tamara Sumarac (...

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...

Relaxing DNA takes its time

30 July 2013

A team of physicists working at the Universities of Cambridge and Leipzig have used a combination of single molecule techniques and theoretical calculations to follow and quantitatively describe the relaxation dynamics of DNA molecules. The work was published in the journal Nature Communications ( http://www.nature.com/...

Joachim Frank a former Cavendish Senior Researcher awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017

Cavendish alumni win the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics

Collapsing energy bands to explore their geometric structure

James Chadwick's Neutron Chamber featured on BBC Radio 4 In Our Time Show

Will Self in conversation with Prof Malcolm Longair, exploring the work of James Clerk Maxwell in Cambridge

Professor Gilbert Lonzarich to be awarded the 2015 Kamerlingh Onnes prize

Professor Sir Sam Edwards CBE FRS

Prizewinners Dinner 2014

Phase Transiting to a New Quantum Universe

Relaxing DNA takes its time

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