The Ray Dolby Centre, our state-of-the-art new home, is now officially open 🎉 ✨ . Its 173 laboratories, lecture halls, collaborative spaces, workshops, cleanrooms and offices will give our scientists space to think outside the box. Find out how👇.

The Undergraduate Open Days are underway! We're incredibly proud to welcome hundreds of future students in our (their!) new home the Ray Dolby Centre, and to give them a taste of the excitement of studying physics at Cambridge. Join us again tomorrow for more! #CambridgePhysics

#CambridgeOpenDays |10 & 11 July 2025 |Ray Dolby Centre 1:30 - 4:30pm.Thinking about studying Physics at Cambridge? Come & explore the #NaturalSciences course that lets you keep your options open— just like Ella Wood, who is now doing research within the #HighEnergyPhysics group.

A team of researchers at the Cavendish Laboratory, in collaboration with @UCSanDiego, has been awarded a £500,000 @EPSRC grant, plus corresponding support from @NSF, to show evidence of quantum entanglement in molecules. Read more:

Thinking of studying Physics at Cambridge? Visit us at the Ray Dolby Centre during #CambridgeOpenDays, 10–11 July 2025, 1:30–4:30pm. Register: .General information stands can also be found at the Student Services Centre, 9:30-4:30pm on both days.

🎉 Congratulations to the Cantabrigians — a Cambridge-based team of researchers from the Cavendish Laboratory and the Institute of Astronomy — for topping the SKA Observatory’s global Science Data Challenge, outperforming 30 teams worldwide! .

📢 We're delighted to announce Nicola Marzari as the next Cavendish Professor of Physics at @Cambridge_Uni. Following in the footsteps of Maxwell, Rutherford and most recently Friend, Nicola will take up the role in September. Full announcement at:

In this blog, Cavendish alumnus Prof. Lionel Clarke OBE reflects on his time at the Cavendish, between 1974 and 1981. His story is a vivid snapshot of what it was like to work in two vastly different research groups at Cavendish 2. 👉#150CavendishStories

Just one week after the neutron was discovered, two pioneering minds at the Cavendish Laboratory, John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton, became the first to split an atom using a man-made particle accelerator and ushering in the era of subatomic physics.

We are saddened to hear the passing of Sir Francis Graham-Smith FRS. A pioneering radio astronomer, Graham was central to Cambridge’s early post-war advances in the field. We send our sincere condolences to his family, friends, and all who knew him.

RT @lorraineelizab6: Ernest Walton (6 Oct 1903 #Dungarvan #Waterford-25 June 1995 #Belfast).👨‍🎓 @wesleycollege @mcbformerpupils @tcdalumni.….

Many congratulations to Richard Friend for receiving a prestigious @ERC_Research Advanced Grant🎉. Friend's BRIGHTS project will create materials with luminescent properties and quantum spin behavior, potentially transforming quantum science and optical technologies. #ERCAdG

🚨 Astrophysicists along with other researchers at the Cavendish have found a way to uncover the masses of the universe’s first stars by studying a specific radio signal from hydrogen atoms just 100 million years after the Big Bang.

RT @CamPhilSoc: Watch Professor John Mollon, Professor of Visual Neuroscience talk about 'Maxwell and the nature of primary colours' from O….

The Day 2 of the Cavendish Science Festival is in full swing, marking the grand finale of our 150th anniversary year! Visitors have been exploring thought-provoking talks, panel discussions, guided tours of the RDC, and more. More information:

Our fourth-year students are showcasing their research at the first-ever Part III Projects Conference at the Ray Dolby Centre today. This event kicks off our Cavendish Science Festival, running until Friday, and concludes our 150th anniversary celebrations! #CambridgePhysics150

A new study by researchers at the Cambridge, Oxford and Manchester has achieved a major advance in quantum materials, developing a method to precisely engineer single quantum defects in diamond—an essential step toward scalable #quantumtechnologies.

We turn 151 today! 🎉 What a remarkable 150th anniversary year it’s been. From welcoming our alumni back to Cambridge, to the official opening of the Ray Dolby Centre and the launch of the Cavendish Museum, it's been a remarkable year. #CambridgePhysics150 @Cambridge_Uni

In 1911, Rutherford changed science forever. 💡 Ella Wood explores how Rutherford and his model of the atom (1911) has revolutionised our understanding of the atom and opened the door to modern nuclear physics. Watch the video: #CambridgePhysics150

🎉 The new Cavendish Museum at the Ray Dolby Centre was officially inaugurated earlier this Tuesday! 🎶 A highlight of the evening was a live performance of early 20th-century songs once sung by Cavendish students. 📺 Watch the performance here.

Studying at Rayleigh Library is comfortable. They’ve got book rests, laptop stands, overlays, whiteboards, ergonomic kit, spare chargers and more to help you focus and stay comfortable. Just ask if you need anything — the staff are happy to help. #CambridgePhysics150 #StudyAids