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Charles H. Townes (1915-2015)
01/28/2015

Charles H. Townes (1915-2015)

Kathy Svitil
Laser pioneer Charles H. Townes (PhD '39), a life member of the Caltech Board of Trustees and a recipient of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics, died on Tuesday, January 27. He was 99 years old.
Batygin Named to Forbes's "30 Under 30" List
01/23/2015

Batygin Named to Forbes's "30 Under 30" List

Lorinda Dajose
Konstantin Batygin (MS '10, PhD '12), an assistant professor of planetary science at Caltech, was recently included in Forbes's "30 Under 30" list in the science category, and described by the editors as being "the next physics rock star."
SPIDER Experiment Touches Down in Antarctica
01/21/2015

SPIDER Experiment Touches Down in Antarctica

Kimm Fesenmaier
SPIDER, an instrument carrying six Caltech-made telescopes, just landed after 16 days drifting in the wind above Antarctica searching for signs of inflation in the earliest moments of the universe.
Caltech Professors Named Fellows of the AAAS
01/21/2015

Caltech Professors Named Fellows of the AAAS

Lorinda Dajose
Caltech Professor of Astronomy George Djorgovski and chemist Bruce Brunschwig are among the 401 newly elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for 2014.
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Fiona Harrison Awarded High-Energy Astrophysics Prize
01/16/2015

Fiona Harrison Awarded High-Energy Astrophysics Prize

Lorinda Dajose
The 2015 Rossi Prize has been awarded to Fiona Harrison, the Benjamin M. Rosen Professor of Physics at Caltech, for her "groundbreaking work on supernova remnants, neutron stars, and black holes enabled by NuSTAR." The award is the top prize in high-energy astrophysics.
Clues In the Quasar
01/07/2015

Clues In the Quasar

Ramanuj Basu
Caltech researchers discover a light signal that hints at an extremely close pair of super-massive black holes.
Prime Numbers, Quantum Fields, and Donuts: An Interview with Xinwen Zhu
12/05/2014

Prime Numbers, Quantum Fields, and Donuts: An Interview with Xinwen Zhu

Jessica Stoller-Conrad
Xinwen Zhu, associate professor of mathematics, joined the Caltech faculty in September. He tells us about himself and his work with a web of mathematical conjectures called the Langlands program.
India Becomes TMT Partner
12/03/2014

India Becomes TMT Partner

Shayna Chabner McKinney
Leaders of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) project announced on Tuesday that the government of India has signed on as a full partner in the construction of what will be the world's largest ground-based telescope.
Marvin L. "Murph" Goldberger
11/27/2014

Marvin L. "Murph" Goldberger

Kathy Svitil
Marvin L. "Murph" Goldberger, Caltech president and professor of theoretical physics, emeritus, passed away on November 26, 2014. He was 92.
New Center Supports Data-Driven Research
11/20/2014

New Center Supports Data-Driven Research

Jessica Stoller-Conrad
The new Center for Data-Driven Discovery makes advanced computational tools available to researchers from all six Caltech divisions, plus JPL researchers.