Walk down the street with Jim Gates, Brown University’s newly appointed Ford Foundation Professor of Physics, and you immediately know you are in the presence of a person of consequence.

Brown Physics Professor Mike Kosterlitz, has been named a "Great Immigrant" in the 2017 class revealed this morning by Carnegie Corporation of New York. Kosterlitz, who won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics, adds this to a long list of honors he has received in his nearly 50-year long career. 

Research Professor, Humphrey Maris, has been awarded the 2017 James Smith Prize of the IPPA (International Photoacoustic and Photothermal Association). The Prize was established to recognize outstanding researchers who have been instrumental in the development and evolution of photoacoustic, photothermal and related techniques and applications that have strong impact on diverse scientific and engineering communities.

Maurice Glicksman, an accomplished engineer, physicist and longtime Brown University faculty member who served as provost from 1978 to 1990, died on May 26 at age 88.

Capacitors, electronic components that store and quickly release a charge, play an important role in many types of electrical circuits.