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Leinweber Foundation Gives Over $100 Million for Theoretical Physics Research

Larry Leinweber has been intrigued by science ever since he was a young child growing up on a farm in rural Michigan. After success as a software entrepreneur, he founded the Leinweber Foundation to support impactful research and expand STEM education access to students from underserved areas. The Leinweber Foundation just made a transformative gift of over $100 million for theoretical physics research across seven top institutions: University of California, Berkeley, University of Michigan, University of Chicago, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, California Institute of Technology, Stanford University, and Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study....

Leinweber Foundation Gives Over $100 Million for Theoretical Physics Research Larry Leinweber has been intrigued by science ever since he was a young child growing up on a farm in rural Michigan. After success as a software entrepreneur, he founded the Leinweber Foundation t…

Stephen Hawking showed a black hole constantly emits radiation that contains almost no information about its interior, causing the black hole to slowly evaporate. This suggests some information is irretrievably lost when the black hole dies. Theorists ever since have struggled to resolve the Hawking Information Paradox, which states information can neither be emitted from a black hole nor preserved inside it forever....

Islands Protruding from Black Holes Are Key to Solving Paradox Stephen Hawking showed a black hole constantly emits radiation that contains almost no information about its interior, causing the black hole to slowly evaporate. This suggests some information is …

Scientists across the nation are both fascinated by the work done at the Department of Energy’s national laboratories and could make important contributions to that work. Still, many of them – especially those at institutions historically underrepresented in the research community – don't have the financial support or pathways they’d need to take part. Such was the case for Southern University and A&M College’s Fred Lacy and Skyline College’s Kolo Wamba – but this summer both got a chance to learn from and contribute to research at DOE’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory through DOE’s…...

DOE summer program broadens visiting faculty-SLAC collaborations Scientists across the nation are both fascinated by the work done at the Department of Energy’s national laboratories and could make important contributions to that work. Still, many of them – espe…

BERKELEY PHYSICS FACULTY ARE DRIVEN to understand the fundamental physics of materials. Theorists hypothesize the existence of new forms of matter and behaviors, and their experimentalist colleagues develop novel materials and tools to observe these exotic properties. “We can now control parameters to systematically study how a material goes from one quantum phase to another quantum phase,” says Berkeley Physics Professor Feng Wang, the Williams H....

Exploring the Mysteries of Exotic 2D Materials BERKELEY PHYSICS FACULTY ARE DRIVEN to understand the fundamental physics of materials. Theorists hypothesize the existence of new forms of matter and behaviors, and their experimentalist colleague…