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Fay Ajzenberg-Selove
Emeritus Professor of Physics Fay Ajzenberg-Selove passed away on August 8. Fay became the second female tenured professor in the School of Arts and Sciences in 1973 and remained at Penn until her retirement in 2003.Before coming to Penn she was the first full-time female faculty member at Haverford College. Her principal scholarly work was in the preparation of evaluated reviews and summaries of studies on nuclei with mass numbers 5 to 20. The influence of her publications and her remarkable personal journey in science led to her receiving the National Medal of Science in 2007.
Charlie Kane awarded Dirac Medal
Prof. Charlie Kane is a winner of this year's Dirac Medal and Prize, one of the top prizes in theoretical physics internationally.
The citation is as follows:
2012 Glenn Brown Dissertation Prize
Sabetta Matsumoto (formerly with the Kamien group) wins 2012 Glenn Brown Dissertation Prize of the International Liquid Crystal Society for highly creative application of analytical mathematics combined with deep geometric insight to an especially interesting variety of problems in liquid crystal physics. She will receive the award in August in Mainz, Germany.
Charlie Kane Named a Simons Investigator
Charlie Kane has been honored by being named a Simons Investigator in the inaugural year of the program by the Simons Foundation. The award, which starts on August 1, is accompanied by $660,000 in funding over a five-year period.
Explaining the Higgs Boson
In a Philadelphia Daily News Q&A, Penn physicist Gino Segre explains the Higgs boson. Penn has been deeply involved in the search for the elusive particle.
At 1pm on Tuesday, July 17, Prof. Segre will conduct a live chat on philly.com.
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New Boson Discovered at CERN
By combining the work of two research teams, ATLAS and CMS, CERN has announced the discovery of a new boson with a mass between 125-126 GeV/c2 at a confidence level that leaves the chance of random events faking the discovery at less than 1 in 10 million.
Mirjam Cvetic
Mirjam Cvetic, Lindback Award & Ira H. Abrams Memorial Award for Distinguished Teaching
Drndic & Shepard Nature Methods: New Integrated Platform Paves the Way to Cheaper, Faster DNA Sequencing
Penn Physics and Engineering researchers measure single molecules faster and with less error than can be achieved with commercial instruments. "We combined the most sensitive electronics with the most sensitive solid-state nanopores," says Drndic.
Read the article abstract in Nature Methods.