Research, teaching and public engagement in Physics at UW–Madison
Emerit professor of physics Paul Quin passed away on October 9, 2025. He was 84. Born in Brooklyn, NY in 1941, Quin received his doctorate in physics from the University of Notre Dame, where his thesis work centered on the spectroscopy of the SD-shell nuclei. He joined the nuclear physics group at UW–Madison as a …
Elements are the building blocks of every chemical in the universe, but how and where the different elements formed is not entirely understood. A new paper in The Astrophysical Journal by University of Wisconsin–Madison physics professor Baha Balantekin and colleagues with the Network for Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS) Physics Frontier Center, shows how …
University of Wisconsin–Madison Professor Emeritus Willy Haeberli passed away October 4, 2021. He was 96. Born in Zurich, Switzerland on June 17, 1925, Haeberli received his PhD from the University of Basel (Switzerland) in 1952. He joined the faculty of UW–Madison in 1956, retiring in 2005. Haeberli was a world-class experimental nuclear physicist. His research …