The official LinkedIn page for the Department of Physics at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. The department was fo ... unded in 1911 and began offering the degree of PhD in 1964. The 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Russell Hulse and Joseph Taylor for their discovery of a binary pulsar while at UMass. The Physics Department offers a breadth of outstanding research along both the experimental and theoretical avenues in Condensed Matter, Bio Physics, Nuclear & Particle Physics, Gravitation, and Fundamental Interactions. Please see our website or other social media networks for more information and feel free to contact us with any questions or inquiries. read more