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May 23
Schwettmann wins NSF Career Award
OU Physics Professor Arne Schwettmann is the recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER (Faculty Early Career Development Program) Award for research on ultra cold...
May 01
Professor Kaib to Record Planetary Radio Live with Bill Nye
OU astrophysics professor Dr Nathan Kaib will be taking part in a recording of Planetary Radio Live with Bill Nye on May 8 3-4:30pm at...
Apr 25
Brad Abbott Named Presidential Professor
OU physics professor Brad Abbott has just been named the recipient of the 2019 Brian and Sandra O'Brien Presidential Professorship http://www.ou.edu/facultyawards/award-recipients ...
Mar 01
Theory-Experiment Team Observed Quantum Mechanical Two-Body Collisions One at a Time
To better understand atomic collisions, Qingze Guan of the University of Oklahoma in Norman and colleagues from Heidelberg University developed a way to...
Jan 18
Branch Awarded Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award
Physics & Astronomy emeritus professor David Branch has been awarded the AAS' Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award, along with J. Craig Wheeler, for their advanced university-level...
Featured Research: An OU Study Explains Why Mars Growth Stunted by Early Giant Planetary Instability
A University of Oklahoma astrophysics team explains why the growth of Mars was stunted by an orbital instability among the outer solar system's giant planets in a new study on the evolution of the young solar system. The OU study builds on the widely-accepted Nice Model, which invokes a planetary instability to explain many peculiar observed aspects of the outer solar system. An OU model used computer simulations to show how planet accretion (growth) is halted by the outer solar system instability. Without it, Mars possibly could have become a larger, habitable planet like Earth.
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