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A proud moment🎉 Cavendish alumnus Prof John Clarke awarded the #NobelPrize2025, with Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis. They opened the door to quantum technologies based on superconducting qubits, putting quantum phenomena to work in real devices. buff.ly/lnm99ls
Bounce or stick? Microdroplet Impact Dynamics by Jamie McLauchlan captures droplets thinner than a hair hitting a surface at 20 km/h! At gentle speeds they cling, at higher speeds they bounce, all in less than a 1000th of a second.
This image was commended in this year's Cavendish Photo Competion.
This image was commended in this year's Cavendish Photo Competion.
November 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Bounce or stick? Microdroplet Impact Dynamics by Jamie McLauchlan captures droplets thinner than a hair hitting a surface at 20 km/h! At gentle speeds they cling, at higher speeds they bounce, all in less than a 1000th of a second.
This image was commended in this year's Cavendish Photo Competion.
This image was commended in this year's Cavendish Photo Competion.
Congratulations to Jeremy Baumberg for securing a prestigious @erc.europa.eu Synergy Grant for his nanomachinery project using light to manipulate DNA nanostructures: buff.ly/oWeItAF 👏
In true NanoPhotonics Group style, Jeremy and his team celebrated with a themed-cake 🍰
In true NanoPhotonics Group style, Jeremy and his team celebrated with a themed-cake 🍰
November 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Congratulations to Jeremy Baumberg for securing a prestigious @erc.europa.eu Synergy Grant for his nanomachinery project using light to manipulate DNA nanostructures: buff.ly/oWeItAF 👏
In true NanoPhotonics Group style, Jeremy and his team celebrated with a themed-cake 🍰
In true NanoPhotonics Group style, Jeremy and his team celebrated with a themed-cake 🍰
Many congratulations to Cavendish Professor Nicola Marzari, 2026 APS David Adler Lectureship Award winner for his "new theory and method developments that have advanced the predictive power of first-principles calculations".🏆
November 6, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Many congratulations to Cavendish Professor Nicola Marzari, 2026 APS David Adler Lectureship Award winner for his "new theory and method developments that have advanced the predictive power of first-principles calculations".🏆
The Hidden Heart of #HARPS3 by Samantha Thompson has won First Prize in the 2025 Cavendish Photography Competition.
✨ HARPS3 is on its way from the Cavendish to the Isaac Newton Telescope, launching a new era in #exoplanet discovery.
Find out more: buff.ly/mrk4UHH @terrahunting.bsky.social
✨ HARPS3 is on its way from the Cavendish to the Isaac Newton Telescope, launching a new era in #exoplanet discovery.
Find out more: buff.ly/mrk4UHH @terrahunting.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The Hidden Heart of #HARPS3 by Samantha Thompson has won First Prize in the 2025 Cavendish Photography Competition.
✨ HARPS3 is on its way from the Cavendish to the Isaac Newton Telescope, launching a new era in #exoplanet discovery.
Find out more: buff.ly/mrk4UHH @terrahunting.bsky.social
✨ HARPS3 is on its way from the Cavendish to the Isaac Newton Telescope, launching a new era in #exoplanet discovery.
Find out more: buff.ly/mrk4UHH @terrahunting.bsky.social
✨ "Wrinkles" by Elliot Goldberg has won the Head of Department Prize in the 2025 Cavendish Photography Competition.
💚This microscope image of a polydimethylsiloxane film was inspired by this year's theme "Next 150 Years of Physics at the Cavendish".
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💚This microscope image of a polydimethylsiloxane film was inspired by this year's theme "Next 150 Years of Physics at the Cavendish".
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October 31, 2025 at 12:13 PM
✨ "Wrinkles" by Elliot Goldberg has won the Head of Department Prize in the 2025 Cavendish Photography Competition.
💚This microscope image of a polydimethylsiloxane film was inspired by this year's theme "Next 150 Years of Physics at the Cavendish".
🔗https://buff.ly/FpxVhLF
💚This microscope image of a polydimethylsiloxane film was inspired by this year's theme "Next 150 Years of Physics at the Cavendish".
🔗https://buff.ly/FpxVhLF
✨ Congratulations to Jesús Arjona Martínez, winner of the 2024 IOP Quantum Electronics and Photonics Doctoral Thesis Prize for his research 'A Nanophotonic Platform for the Tin-Vacancy Centre.'
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October 30, 2025 at 3:45 PM
✨ Congratulations to Jesús Arjona Martínez, winner of the 2024 IOP Quantum Electronics and Photonics Doctoral Thesis Prize for his research 'A Nanophotonic Platform for the Tin-Vacancy Centre.'
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The Cavendish Laboratory Annual Prizewinners’ Dinner celebrated the brilliant young minds shaping the future of #Physics. On 24 Oct, students and recent graduates received their awards from Professor Ulrich Schneider, Director of Undergraduate Education.
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October 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The Cavendish Laboratory Annual Prizewinners’ Dinner celebrated the brilliant young minds shaping the future of #Physics. On 24 Oct, students and recent graduates received their awards from Professor Ulrich Schneider, Director of Undergraduate Education.
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Last evening was all about fun, and new beginnings at the Cavendish for our incoming PhD students this year! They got to know each other through games, “real vs fake” introductions, and a lively round of physics networking bingo - all along with plenty of pizza, of course! 🍕✨
October 23, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Last evening was all about fun, and new beginnings at the Cavendish for our incoming PhD students this year! They got to know each other through games, “real vs fake” introductions, and a lively round of physics networking bingo - all along with plenty of pizza, of course! 🍕✨
Our final piece of kit, the cryogenics facility, has moved to the Ray Dolby Centre, officially wrapping up our 11-month, 14-phase relocation!🙌
Thanks to all our Cavendish community and our partners MovePlan and Restore Harrow Green for making this huge move a true team success👏
Thanks to all our Cavendish community and our partners MovePlan and Restore Harrow Green for making this huge move a true team success👏
October 22, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Our final piece of kit, the cryogenics facility, has moved to the Ray Dolby Centre, officially wrapping up our 11-month, 14-phase relocation!🙌
Thanks to all our Cavendish community and our partners MovePlan and Restore Harrow Green for making this huge move a true team success👏
Thanks to all our Cavendish community and our partners MovePlan and Restore Harrow Green for making this huge move a true team success👏
Have you been on our Self-Guided Cambridge Physics Walking Tour? 🎧
Stroll through the historic streets and cloisters of Cambridge where discoveries that changed the world were made. 🌍You can download the free tour via Voice Map app: buff.ly/v9I8zUm
Stroll through the historic streets and cloisters of Cambridge where discoveries that changed the world were made. 🌍You can download the free tour via Voice Map app: buff.ly/v9I8zUm
October 21, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Have you been on our Self-Guided Cambridge Physics Walking Tour? 🎧
Stroll through the historic streets and cloisters of Cambridge where discoveries that changed the world were made. 🌍You can download the free tour via Voice Map app: buff.ly/v9I8zUm
Stroll through the historic streets and cloisters of Cambridge where discoveries that changed the world were made. 🌍You can download the free tour via Voice Map app: buff.ly/v9I8zUm
A fresh academic year, a new beginning and a milestone moment! ✨
Earlier this week we saw the very first IB Lab session at the Ray Dolby Centre, marking an inspiring start to the term.
Here’s to a year filled with curiosity, collaboration, and discovery!
#RayDolbyCentre #IBLab
Earlier this week we saw the very first IB Lab session at the Ray Dolby Centre, marking an inspiring start to the term.
Here’s to a year filled with curiosity, collaboration, and discovery!
#RayDolbyCentre #IBLab
October 17, 2025 at 11:11 AM
A fresh academic year, a new beginning and a milestone moment! ✨
Earlier this week we saw the very first IB Lab session at the Ray Dolby Centre, marking an inspiring start to the term.
Here’s to a year filled with curiosity, collaboration, and discovery!
#RayDolbyCentre #IBLab
Earlier this week we saw the very first IB Lab session at the Ray Dolby Centre, marking an inspiring start to the term.
Here’s to a year filled with curiosity, collaboration, and discovery!
#RayDolbyCentre #IBLab
🎉Excited to celebrate QuanTour’s 2025 Institute of Physics Lise Meitner award! We were proud to host the travelling quantum light source in Cambridge and contribute to this groundbreaking initiative. Congrats to the QuanTour team for their brilliant work.
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©D. Reiter/DR
October 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
🎉Excited to celebrate QuanTour’s 2025 Institute of Physics Lise Meitner award! We were proud to host the travelling quantum light source in Cambridge and contribute to this groundbreaking initiative. Congrats to the QuanTour team for their brilliant work.
©D. Reiter/DR
©D. Reiter/DR
Welcome to our first-year undergraduates👋✨
Today the Undergraduate Teaching Team (Rachael, Richard and Helen), our Director of Undergraduate Education Ulrich Schneider and Head of Department Mete Atature welcomed the Part IA cohort in the Ray Dolby Auditorium.
Today the Undergraduate Teaching Team (Rachael, Richard and Helen), our Director of Undergraduate Education Ulrich Schneider and Head of Department Mete Atature welcomed the Part IA cohort in the Ray Dolby Auditorium.
October 8, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Welcome to our first-year undergraduates👋✨
Today the Undergraduate Teaching Team (Rachael, Richard and Helen), our Director of Undergraduate Education Ulrich Schneider and Head of Department Mete Atature welcomed the Part IA cohort in the Ray Dolby Auditorium.
Today the Undergraduate Teaching Team (Rachael, Richard and Helen), our Director of Undergraduate Education Ulrich Schneider and Head of Department Mete Atature welcomed the Part IA cohort in the Ray Dolby Auditorium.
We are deeply saddened by the passing of Prof Jochen Guck, former Reader in Biophysics at the Cavendish and a great contributor to our Department. He will be missed by his former colleagues and friends. We send our most sincere condolences to his family. buff.ly/oLTNVRH
October 8, 2025 at 10:44 AM
We are deeply saddened by the passing of Prof Jochen Guck, former Reader in Biophysics at the Cavendish and a great contributor to our Department. He will be missed by his former colleagues and friends. We send our most sincere condolences to his family. buff.ly/oLTNVRH
A proud moment🎉 Cavendish alumnus Prof John Clarke awarded the #NobelPrize2025, with Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis. They opened the door to quantum technologies based on superconducting qubits, putting quantum phenomena to work in real devices. buff.ly/lnm99ls
October 7, 2025 at 4:19 PM
A proud moment🎉 Cavendish alumnus Prof John Clarke awarded the #NobelPrize2025, with Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis. They opened the door to quantum technologies based on superconducting qubits, putting quantum phenomena to work in real devices. buff.ly/lnm99ls
Welcome to the new academic year! 🎉
For the first time, all lectures across the academic year will take place in our new home, the Ray Dolby Centre.
We wish all our students, both new and returning, the very best for the year ahead!
For the first time, all lectures across the academic year will take place in our new home, the Ray Dolby Centre.
We wish all our students, both new and returning, the very best for the year ahead!
October 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Welcome to the new academic year! 🎉
For the first time, all lectures across the academic year will take place in our new home, the Ray Dolby Centre.
We wish all our students, both new and returning, the very best for the year ahead!
For the first time, all lectures across the academic year will take place in our new home, the Ray Dolby Centre.
We wish all our students, both new and returning, the very best for the year ahead!
Researchers found that when a two-dimensional homogeneous Bose gas is driven far from equilibrium, it shows universal behaviour - following the same simple rules regardless of its starting point.
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#Physics #BoseGas #ColdAtoms
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#Physics #BoseGas #ColdAtoms
October 3, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Researchers found that when a two-dimensional homogeneous Bose gas is driven far from equilibrium, it shows universal behaviour - following the same simple rules regardless of its starting point.
🔗 Read the full article: buff.ly/a9aIjMt
#Physics #BoseGas #ColdAtoms
🔗 Read the full article: buff.ly/a9aIjMt
#Physics #BoseGas #ColdAtoms
News flash: organic materials can generate electricity all by themesleves 💡
Exciting new collaborative research between Cavendish and @chemistrycambridge.bsky.social scientists that could transform the future of solar energy and electronics ☀️
See how: buff.ly/pzZGoCT
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Exciting new collaborative research between Cavendish and @chemistrycambridge.bsky.social scientists that could transform the future of solar energy and electronics ☀️
See how: buff.ly/pzZGoCT
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October 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
News flash: organic materials can generate electricity all by themesleves 💡
Exciting new collaborative research between Cavendish and @chemistrycambridge.bsky.social scientists that could transform the future of solar energy and electronics ☀️
See how: buff.ly/pzZGoCT
@natmater.nature.com
Exciting new collaborative research between Cavendish and @chemistrycambridge.bsky.social scientists that could transform the future of solar energy and electronics ☀️
See how: buff.ly/pzZGoCT
@natmater.nature.com
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A one-week, technically-focused course providing hands-on training in transistor fabrication and analysis within a clean room environment
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September 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
✨ Join for a fascinating talk by Dr Sam Grimshaw from the Whittle Laboratory today at 6pm. Discover how the push towards zero-emission electric jet engines connects with the mysterious science of cricket ball swing.📍 Ray Dolby Centre, Cambridge
Details: buff.ly/Nvm92qj
Details: buff.ly/Nvm92qj
September 30, 2025 at 3:33 PM
✨ Join for a fascinating talk by Dr Sam Grimshaw from the Whittle Laboratory today at 6pm. Discover how the push towards zero-emission electric jet engines connects with the mysterious science of cricket ball swing.📍 Ray Dolby Centre, Cambridge
Details: buff.ly/Nvm92qj
Details: buff.ly/Nvm92qj
✨ Cavendish researchers have found a way to tune tiny clusters of metal nanoparticles to interact with light in surprising ways.
The findings could improve non-invasive sensing technologies for #healthcare and environmental monitoring.
Read the article: buff.ly/XFMKjCH
The findings could improve non-invasive sensing technologies for #healthcare and environmental monitoring.
Read the article: buff.ly/XFMKjCH
September 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
✨ Cavendish researchers have found a way to tune tiny clusters of metal nanoparticles to interact with light in surprising ways.
The findings could improve non-invasive sensing technologies for #healthcare and environmental monitoring.
Read the article: buff.ly/XFMKjCH
The findings could improve non-invasive sensing technologies for #healthcare and environmental monitoring.
Read the article: buff.ly/XFMKjCH
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If you want evidence of science making a tangible difference, Prof Tuomas Knowles has 5 successful companies to show you: https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/the-protein-pioneer?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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September 23, 2025 at 12:50 PM
If you want evidence of science making a tangible difference, Prof Tuomas Knowles has 5 successful companies to show you: https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/the-protein-pioneer?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
@cambridgephysics.bsky.social
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At CORDE's #AtomScattering and #AtomMicroscopy Facility, we’re pushing the boundaries of what’s possible✨
Using helium atom scattering the researchers can carry out ultra-sensitive structural and dynamic analysis of 2D materials and surfaces.
🔗 Find out more: corde.phy.cam.ac.uk/characterisa...
Using helium atom scattering the researchers can carry out ultra-sensitive structural and dynamic analysis of 2D materials and surfaces.
🔗 Find out more: corde.phy.cam.ac.uk/characterisa...
September 19, 2025 at 1:46 PM
At CORDE's #AtomScattering and #AtomMicroscopy Facility, we’re pushing the boundaries of what’s possible✨
Using helium atom scattering the researchers can carry out ultra-sensitive structural and dynamic analysis of 2D materials and surfaces.
🔗 Find out more: corde.phy.cam.ac.uk/characterisa...
Using helium atom scattering the researchers can carry out ultra-sensitive structural and dynamic analysis of 2D materials and surfaces.
🔗 Find out more: corde.phy.cam.ac.uk/characterisa...
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🌐 We’re live! Cambridge’s Collaborative R&D Environment (CORDE) is here to connect ideas, people, and scientific innovation. Follow us for updates on how CORDE can support your research and open doors to new ideas and discoveries💡
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#CORDE #Innovation #CambridgeResearch
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Home - CORDE Web Portal
CORDE is a gateway to outstanding nanofabrication, characterisation and precision fabrication capabilities for the research community.
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September 15, 2025 at 6:19 PM
🌐 We’re live! Cambridge’s Collaborative R&D Environment (CORDE) is here to connect ideas, people, and scientific innovation. Follow us for updates on how CORDE can support your research and open doors to new ideas and discoveries💡
corde.phy.cam.ac.uk
#CORDE #Innovation #CambridgeResearch
corde.phy.cam.ac.uk
#CORDE #Innovation #CambridgeResearch
The 40th edition of #PhysicsAtWork welcomed more than 2,000 students at the Ray Dolby Centre to explore the many different careers that a Physics degree can open up. From #robotics to forensic science to an inspiring talk on the #JWST, the event was packed with hands-on science.
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September 19, 2025 at 11:11 AM
The 40th edition of #PhysicsAtWork welcomed more than 2,000 students at the Ray Dolby Centre to explore the many different careers that a Physics degree can open up. From #robotics to forensic science to an inspiring talk on the #JWST, the event was packed with hands-on science.
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