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Johns Hopkins University (Whiting), a private institution, offers online labs, and all of the online classes are recorded and archived so students can access lecture material at their convenience.

Nathan Williams received his B.S. degree in physics, mathematics, and astronomy from the University of Arizona in 2005. He then went to the University of Rochester to study theoretical quantum optics.