IU physicist played early role in history of Nobel Prize-winning theory
A physicist at Indiana University played an important role in the history of the work of two scientists honored by today’s Nobel Prize in Physics. The winners of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics are David J. Thouless, Michael Kosterlitz and F. Duncan M. Haldane, who were recognized Oct. 4 for theoretical discoveries of topological […]
IU-built scintillator ‘in the game’ as NOvA experiment detects its first evidence of oscillating neutrinos
An Indiana University professor who is co-lead scientist on a major, multi-institutional investigation into the mysterious behavior of the subatomic particles known as neutrinos recently announced the project’s first results before an international gathering of colleagues. Mark Messier, a professor in the IU Bloomington College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Physics, delivered the address […]