Nuclear Physics
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Vanderbilt students selected by the Department of Energy’s Office of Science Graduate Student Research Program
Vanderbilt graduate students Luis Bichon and Brandon Tyler Blankenship have been selected for the Department of Energy’s Office of Science Graduate Student Research program and will pursue their research on high-energy nuclear physics at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Read MoreJun 1, 2021
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Tennessine approved as name of newly discovered element
Tennessee joins California to become only the second American state memorialized in the periodic table of elements. Read MoreNov 30, 2016
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Congressman Cooper honors Hamilton and Ramayya for superheavy element discovery
U.S. Representative Jim Cooper honored nuclear physicists Joe Hamilton and A.V. Ramayya Aug. 12 for their role in the discovery of the new superheavy element 117 that has been provisionally named Tennessine. Read MoreAug 13, 2016
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Adding to the periodic table
Nuclear physicist Joseph Hamilton (Daniel Dubois / Vanderbilt) The year has gotten off to a good start for modern-day alchemists like Vanderbilt physicists Joe Hamilton and A.V. Ramayya who are engaged in the extremely challenging scientific endeavor of extending the periodic table by creating new… Read MoreFeb 7, 2012
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Vanderbilt nuclear physicist elected to European academy
Physics professor Joseph H. Hamilton has been elected as a member of the Academia Europaea, a non-governmental association that serves as a European academy of arts and sciences. Read MoreDec 8, 2011