The UW Physics Department awarded its first PhD in 1899. Since then our students have earned degrees in virtually every area of physics, and our faculty have played key roles in a myriad of important research efforts.

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Sau Lan Wu featured in Quanta Magazine
IceCube Neutrinos Point to Long-Sought Cosmic Ray Accelerator
UW physicists, CERN announce discovery of Higgs boson interactions
Dr. David Fahey, the receipient of the Honorary Degree from the UW-Madison, 2018, with host Prof. Jim Lawler.
LZ experiment featured in "UW Fueling Discovery"
Prototype camera set for integration into novel gamma-ray telescope
Profs Justin Vandenbroucke and Jay Gallagher receive UW2020 award to develop instrumentation for studying the highest energy photons
Roger Waleffe (leftmost), AMEP major wins Goldwater Scholarship

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Sau Lan Wu featured in Quanta Magazine
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IceCube Neutrinos Point to Long-Sought Cosmic Ray Accelerator
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