Nobel Prize

Nobel scholar to share climate change solutions in lecture

Posted by on September 27, 2021

Dr. Don Wuebbles, who shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), will discuss extreme weather events related to climate change and possible ways to slow and mitigate the challenge during the 2021 Stueck Lecture at Missouri S&T.

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VIDEO: Chemistry Nobel Laureate delivers Stoffer Lecture

Posted by on April 26, 2021

Dr. M. Stanley Whittingham, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Binghamton University, delivered the fifth annual Stoffer Lecture virtually on April 16. If you missed the lecture, watch it here

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Chemistry Nobel Laureate to speak Friday

Posted by on April 12, 2021

Missouri S&T will host a winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in chemistry as part of the university’s 150th anniversary celebration events. Dr. M. Stanley Whittingham, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Binghamton University, will deliver the fifth annual Stoffer Lecture virtually at 4 p.m. Friday, April 16.

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Nobel Prize winner to give virtual seminar

Posted by on March 29, 2021

Dr. William D. Phillips, one of three recipients of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics, will give a special colloquium at 4 p.m. Thursday, April 1. He will give a talk titled “A New Measure: The Revolutionary Quantum Reform of the Metric System.”

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Today: Learn about black holes, Milky Way’s darkest secret

Posted by on November 19, 2020

Dr. Marco Cavaglia, professor of physics, and Dr. Shun Saito, assistant professor of physics, will present a public lecture about the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics at 4 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 19, via Zoom. Their lecture is titled “Black Holes and the Milky Way’s Darkest Secret.

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Nobel Prize winner to give physics colloquium

Posted by on November 2, 2020

Dr. Rainer Weiss, winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in physics, will present a talk titled “Beginnings of Gravitational Wave Astronomy: Current State and Future” at 4 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 5.

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Grants go to 11 projects for 150th celebration

Posted by on January 6, 2020

In support of our upcoming 150th anniversary, Missouri S&T is providing mini-grants to faculty, staff and students planning creative ways to commemorate the milestone. Eleven projects were selected from 31 proposals to celebrate the anniversary from October 2020 to November 2021.

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Lights, lasers, Nobel Prize

Posted by on November 15, 2018

Two physics faculty members will present “Tools of Light,” a lecture about the 2018 Nobel Prize for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics, 4-5 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 29, in Room 104 of Physics Building. Refreshments will be served at 3:40 p.m.

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