Thomas Weiler
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Thomas Weiler, emeritus professor of physics and astronomy, has died
Thomas Weiler, professor of physics and astronomy, emeritus, died December 17, 2023, after enduring a progressive neurodegenerative variant of Parkinson’s disease. He was 74. Read MoreJan 29, 2024
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Thomas Weiler receives prestigious Simons Foundation Fellowship
Professor of Physics Thomas Weiler has been awarded a prestigious Simons Foundation Fellowship in Theoretical Physics. Read MoreJul 7, 2014
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Vanderbilt collaborates on NASA’s Extreme Universe Space Observatory
NASA has awarded $4.4 million to a collaboration of scientists at U.S. universities, including a Vanderbilt professor, and NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center to help build a 2.5-meter ultraviolet telescope called the Extreme Universe Space Observatory for deployment on the International Space Station in 2017. Read MoreMar 12, 2013
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Top 20 news stories of 2011
Bionics, time travel, Bono and, of course, cicadas are just some of the exciting stories that marked 2011 at Vanderbilt. Below are the year’s top 20 Vanderbilt news stories, in order of the number of views they each received on the Vanderbilt News Network. Read MoreDec 29, 2011
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Large Hadron Collider could be world’s first time machine
Prof. Thomas Weiler, right, and graduate fellow Chui Man Ho (John Russell / Vanderbilt) If the latest theory of Tom Weiler and Chui Man Ho is right, the Large Hadron Collider – the world’s largest atom smasher that started regular operation last year – could be… Read MoreMar 15, 2011