Physics Professor and Student’s Work Featured on the Cover of Nature
Physics Professor and Student's Work Featured on the Cover of Nature
Physics Professor Mark Edwards, Ph.D., the University Fuller E. Callaway Professorial Chair, and College of Science and Mathematics student Noel Murray, are among the authors of an article featured on the cover of the February issue of Nature, an international weekly journal of science.
The flagship journal of the Nature Publishing Group, Nature is widely regarded as the world's premier interdisciplinary science journal.
“It’s never happened to me before. It’s a great honor for me and primarily due to the collaborators that I worked with at the Joint Quantum Institute,” said Dr. Edwards.
A student in the joint physics and chemistry Masters of Science in Physical Science degree program, Murray also plans to pursue his doctoral degree.
“It’s an honor being so young and not actually even started in my physics career yet, to already have this accomplishment. I hope that it’s going to help me get into a good Ph.D school and help me with my career in the future,” said Murray.
“This certainly can’t hurt,” added Edwards.
The article titled "Hysteresis in a quantized superfluid 'atomtronic' circuit," reports on the collaborative work between a team of experimental researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) and the Georgia Southern University theoretical team consisting of Murray and Edwards. The JQI is an institute run by the University of Maryland (UMD) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). NIST is a national laboratory run by the U.S. Department of Commerce. The JQI research team consists of Steve Eckel, Jeff Lee, Fred Jendrzejewski, Charles Clark, Chris Lobb, Bill Phillips, and Gretchen Campbell. One of the co-authors, Bill Phillips, is a co-winner of the 1997 Physics Nobel Prize.
According to Thomson-Reuters Web of Knowledge database, this is the first article with authors having a Georgia Southern affiliation published since 1999, and marks the fourth time in history this has happened.
Since publication, the article has been featured in numerous science news websites including Science Daily, Physics News, SciTechDaily and more! Get the article in full detail by visiting Dr. Edwards' research web page.
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