Important Physics Firsts

Throughout the history of the NC State Department of Physics, a number of "Physics Firsts" bear testimony to the wide variety of ground-breaking achievements of department faculty. Featured here are a few examples that underscore the diverse nature of research conducted in the department.

• The First Discovery of Spiral Crystals
• The First Tandem VanDeGraff
• The First Nano-Raman Image
• The First High-Resolution Three Dimensional Image of an Accretion Disk
• The World's First Electric Guitar
• First Proof of Important Fermionic Theorem