Top Ten Physics Breakthroughs of 2012 | Physics & Astronomy

Physics World Magazine named its Top Ten Physics Breakthroughs of 2012

Faculty members in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pittsburgh contributed to four of the ten.

Discovery of the Higgs boson (ATLAS and CMS Collaborations): Joe Boudreau, Jim Mueller, Vittorio Paolone, Vladimir Savinov
Neutrino communication (MINERVA Collaboration): Steve Dytman, Donna Naples, Vittorio Paolone
Galaxy cluster velocities (ACT and BOSS Collaborations): Arthur Kosowsky
Majorana fermions in solids: Sergey Frolov

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