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Aspen Center for Physics

Aspen Center for Physics
Founder(s)
Established1962
FocusPhysics
PresidentMatthias Troyer
Address700 Gillespie Ave, Aspen, CO 81611, USA
Location
Aspen
,
Colorado
,
United States
Websiteaspenphys.org

The Aspen Center for Physics (ACP) is a non-profit institution for physics research located in Aspen, Colorado, in the Rocky Mountains region of the United States. Since its foundation in 1962, it has hosted distinguished physicists for short-term visits during seasonal winter and summer programs, to promote collaborative research in fields including astrophysics, cosmology, condensed matter physics, string theory, quantum physics, biophysics, and more.[1][2]

To date, sixty-six of the center's affiliates have won Nobel Prizes in Physics and three have won Fields Medals in mathematics. Its affiliates have garnered a wide array of other national and international distinctions, among them the Abel Prize, the Dirac Medal, the Guggenheim Fellowship, the MacArthur Prize, and the Breakthrough Prize.[3][4][5][6][7] Its visitors have included figures such as the cosmologist and gravitational theorist Stephen Hawking, the particle physicist Murray Gell-Mann, the condensed matter theorist Philip W. Anderson, and the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Margaret Thatcher.[8][9][10][11]

In addition to serving as a locus for physics research, the ACP's mission has entailed public outreach: offering programs to educate the general public about physics and to stimulate interest in the subject among youth.[12][13]

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  8. ^ "PastPerfect". archiveaspen.catalogaccess.com. Retrieved 2023-08-22.
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  11. ^ "Aspen Center for Physics". www.aspenphys.org. Retrieved 2023-07-21.
  12. ^ "Informing the Public". Aspen Center for Physics. Retrieved 4 September 2013.
  13. ^ "PastPerfect". archiveaspen.catalogaccess.com. Retrieved 2023-08-22.

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