School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh
Affiliation | EPCC, Institute of Physics |
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Campus | James Clerk Maxwell Building, King's Buildings, Edinburgh, Scotland |
Website | www |
The University of Edinburgh School of Physics and Astronomy is the physics department of the University of Edinburgh. The School was formed in 1993 by a merger of the Department of Physics and the Department of Astronomy, both at the University of Edinburgh. The Department of Physics itself was a merger between the Department of Natural Philosophy and the Department of Mathematical Physics in the late 1960s. The School is part of the University's College of Science and Engineering.[1][2]
Institutes[]
Institutions and research groups based within the school include:
- Institute for Astronomy (IfA) - One of the UK's major centres of astronomical research, specialising in survey astronomy, cosmology, active galaxies and the formation of stars and planets.
- Institute for Condensed Matter and Complex Systems (ICMCS)
- Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics (IPNP)
- - A new centre established in 2012 to "seek an even deeper understanding of how the universe works."[3]
The school is housed in the James Clerk Maxwell Building on the University's King's Buildings campus.
Notable people[]
Catherine Heymans, the incumbent Astronomer Royal for Scotland, is a Professor at the School of Physics and Astronomy, and is the course organiser for the pre-honours Introductory Astrophysics course.[4][5]
Five winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics are associated with the University: Edward Victor Appleton, Charles Glover Barkla, Max Born, Igor Tamm and Peter Higgs.[6] Further notable physicists associated with the University include Joseph Black, James Clerk Maxwell and Peter Guthrie Tait.[7][8][9]
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "About the School of Physics and Astronomy". University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
- ^ "Physics Quality Profiles, Research Assessment Exercise 2008". Retrieved 1 August 2012.
- ^ "University to support new physics research". University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 4 August 2012.
- ^ "Catherine Heymans". roe.ac.uk. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
- ^ "Catherine Heymans". www.ph.ed.ac.uk. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
- ^ List of Nobel laureates affiliated with the University of Edinburgh
- ^ Guerlac, Henry (1970–1980). "Black, Joseph". Dictionary of Scientific Biography. 2. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 173–183. ISBN 978-0-684-10114-9.
- ^ James Clerk Maxwell
- ^ "Tait, Peter Guthrie (TT848PG)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
External links[]
- Astronomy in the United Kingdom
- Schools of the University of Edinburgh
- Physics departments in the United Kingdom
- Science and technology in Edinburgh