Nobel Prizes
This ASU professor that won the Nobel Prize for their discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction.
Frank Wilczek
This building is purportedly haunted by a librarian who died there during a fire and another woman who supposedly stalks workers who toil in the basement of the building late at night.
Matthews Center
This falcon can dive at speeds over 200mph, making it the fastest (known) animal in the world.
Peregrine Falcon
This person first developed the idea that motion is relative.
Galileo Galilei
The founder of this subfield committed suicide.
Statistical Mechanics
This person is the only one to have won a Nobel prize in both physics and Chemistry.
Marie Curie
Arizona senator Barry Goldwater lost in a landslide to this president.
Lyndon B. Johnson
This underwater animal lived roughly 13-20 million years ago and was the largest shark ever discovered.
Megalodon
In 1928, this physicist discovered the positron.
Paul Dirac
This field of physics is responsible for MRI and CAT scans.
Biophysics
This person won two Nobel prizes in physics: for BCS theory and the transistor.
John Bardeen
This Arizona Congressman has served the third longest in Congress in US history.
Carl Hayden
This land mammal resembling a horse and zebra can detect infrasonic sounds.
Okapi
This physicist invented the first video game in October of 1958.
William Higinbotham
This field of physics throws electrons at each other and sees what happens.
Accelerator Physics
This Nobel prize is awarded not by Sweden but Norway.
Nobel Peace Prize
This world figure visited ASU in 1987.
The Pope
This brightly colored winged wasp is famous for its ability to paralyze tarantulas (and they’re native to AZ).
Tarantula Hawk
This person first proposed that light travels to our eyes as a wave.
al-Kindi
This field of physics explains everything that classical mechanics doesn’t.
Quantum Mechanics
This SPS officer’s dad was a postdoc for a guy who almost won a Nobel.
Greg
ASU and UA annually compete for this trophy, which is the oldest in NCAA history.
Territorial Cup
This animal is the largest carnivorous mammal on Madagascar.
Fossa
On February 12, 1935, this instrument was patented.
Van de Graaff generator
This subfield is responsible for the study of space and the application of physics to astronomy.
Astrophysics