Heather Gray

african physicist trying not to destroy the world. associate professor at uc berkeley. studies tiny particles with gigantic accelerators. opinions my own.

[Heather Gray @profheathergray]

It’s such a mind shift traveling on a US passport instead of a (South) African one. What do you mean I can just get on a plane and show up in new countries with no extensive planning required?

[Heather Gray @profheathergray]

@Romy_Holland My daughter has flown regularly since 2 months. I think she thought that we didn’t go anywhere on planes for quite a while - just mommy and her hanging out in a metal box for a long time.

[Heather Gray @profheathergray]

@Dr_CMingarelli @GeminiApp Yep I got the same. Professors are clearly male

[Heather Gray @profheathergray]

@Romy_Holland I’ve done it often. Firstly be prepared to play for 2 hours at 2 am or some time. However they are more resilient because they can adapt the nap length to get enough sleep. They adapt to the new time zone much more quickly. Once they are older you can use melatonin.

[Heather Gray @profheathergray]

@mindyisser Try going in with a 3 year old and suitcases …

[Heather Gray @profheathergray]

@Yuchenj_UW The research that earned the 2025 Nobel prize was done at UC Berkeley not Google.

[Heather Gray @profheathergray]

@UofCalifornia @UCBerkeley @ucsantabarbara Perhaps you should wait until the end of Nobel prize season before updating the count?

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

“I’m completely stunned, it never occurred to me that it would be the basis of a Nobel Prize.”

New physics laureate John Clarke was completely surprised when he discovered he had been awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Physics.

At this morning's press conference he reflected on his prize-awarded research: “Our discovery is in some way the basis of quantum computing.”

#NobelPrize

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

“I can’t imagine accepting the prize without them.”

In this interview shortly after the prize announcement, new physics laureate John Clarke is still stunned by the news. He praises his co-laureates John Martinis and Michel Devoret, who he worked together with at a lab in Berkeley, California, some 40 years ago. Clarke recollects the many discussions and extensive work that eventually led to their Nobel Prize-awarded discoveries.

“It took us a long time to get all of this worked out. None of this work would have happened without the two of them.”

Listen to the interview here.

#NobelPrize

[Heather Gray @profheathergray]

Waking up to a Nobel prize for Berkeley this morning! Big congratulations to all. Going to be fun working with the students on the Josephson Junction experiment today.

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPrize in Physics to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.”

[Heather Gray @profheathergray]

Today’s schedule at the European Strategy Meeting for Particle Physics starts at 9 am and ends at 8 pm!

[Heather Gray @profheathergray]

@DrAllyLouks @rats4friends I ❤️ vinted

[Heather Gray @profheathergray]

1.5 hours hard apparently

[Heather Gray @profheathergray]

Waiting more than an hour on the ground at @flySFO after landing. Is it really so hard to get people off a plane?

[Breakthrough @brkthroughprize]

CERN's experiments are global efforts. The 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics honors over 13,000 researchers whose labors have led to the precise description the Higgs mechanism, the discovery of dozens of new particles, analysis of rare processes and matter-antimatter asymmetry and exploration of nature at the shortest distances and most extreme conditions. https://t.co/OSDzo6jMHF @CERN

[Davide Castelvecchi @dcastelvecchi]

CERN's secular challenge: Can we predict what technologies will be available 50 years from now that could make high-energy colliders radically different — or even obsolete? And can we even imagine what questions physicists will be asking in 2070? #FCC

https://t.co/JqUbIfmHz3

[Heather Gray @profheathergray]

@MSharifpourMD Try it with a baby in tow 🤣

[Heather Gray @profheathergray]

@MSharifpourMD @Delta The issue is the altitude of Aspen airport that makes it difficult for planes to take off. This happens quite often there in my experience.

[Heather Gray @profheathergray]

Whoa: https://t.co/Pd3CJydS31. So much of ATLAS communication goes via Skype.

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

It begins