Tough Science: Five Experiments as Hard as Finding the Higgs - feature Astronomy Alumni

January 10, 2012

This article appeared in Nature magazine entitled "Tough Science: Five Experiments as Hard as Finding the Higgs," by science writer Nicola Jones,The five projects with highlighted researchers that he selected are:

  • Distant signs of Life (Charbonneau)
  • Molecular Mirror (Darquie)
  • Extra Dimensions (Adelberger)
  • Gravity Waves via pulsars (Ransom)
  • The Kilogram (Pratt)

TWO of these topics highlight former PhD students of the Harvard Astronomy department, Charbonneau and Ransom, who both started their related work as our graduate students. This adds to the two former graduates, Adam Riess and Brian Schmidt, who received the Nobel prize in physics this year.