Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester

History

• Hans Bethe, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1967
• Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1948
• Niels Bohr, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922
• Sir William Lawrence Bragg, discovered Bragg's law and awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1915
• Sir James Chadwick, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1935
• Sir John Cockcroft, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1951
• Rod Davies, Professor of Radio Astronomy
• Richard Davis, Professor of Astrophysics
• Samuel Devons, FRS
• Brian Flowers, Baron Flowers, FRS
• Sir Francis Graham-Smith, Astronomer Royal from 1982 to 1990
• Henry Hall, FRS who built the first dilution refrigerator
• Sir Bernard Lovell, creator of the Lovell Telescope at the Jodrell Bank Observatory
• Henry Moseley, creator of Moseley's law
• Nevill Francis Mott, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1977
• Ernest Rutherford, awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908 for splitting the atom
• Sir Arthur Schuster, FRS
• Balfour Stewart, first Langworthy Professor of Physics
• Sir Joseph John "J. J." Thomson, studied Physics at Owens College, Manchester aged 14, went on to run the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge and was awarded the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Research groups

1. Astronomy and Astrophysics
2. Biological Physics
3. Condensed Matter Physics
4. Nonlinear Dynamics and Liquid Crystal Physics
5. Photon Physics
6. Particle Physics
7. Nuclear Physics
8. Theoretical Physics

Notable faculty

• Sarah Bridle, Professor of Astrophysics
• Philippa Browning Professor Astrophysics
• Brian Cox,, Professor of Particle Physics, working on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider
• Philip Diamond, Professor of Photon Physics and Director General of the Square Kilometre Array
• Wendy Flavell, Vice Dean for Research and a Professor of Surface Physics
• Jeffrey Forshaw, Professor of Particle Physics and co-author of The Quantum Universe
• Sir Andre Geim, Regius Professor & Royal Society Research Professor
• Sir Konstantin Novoselov, Langworthy Professor of Physics
• Tim O'Brien, Professor of Astrophysics
• Terry Wyatt Professor of Particle Physics

  Emeritus professors

• Alexander Donnachie, Research Professor
• Andrew Lyne Emeritus Professor & co-discoverer of the binary pulsar
• Robin Marshall, FRS, Professor of Physics & Biology
• Michael Moore, FRS, Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Physics