Jefferson Lab ES&H Deputy Director Receives Health Physics Society Honor

Bob May’s career-long aspiration has been to keep people from all walks of life and in different work environments safe from radiation in the workplace. Now, the deputy director of Environment, Safety and Health at the U.S. Department of Energy's...
30-Jul-2020 9:30 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Developing Detectors for Scientific Research and Medicine

Cynthia Keppel has been named a DOE Office of Science Distinguished Scientist Fellow. Based at DOE’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, she is one of three DOE National Laboratory scientist fellows who will receive $1 million to...
22-Jul-2020 2:30 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Postdoc Pushes Backward Physics to Fore

Wenliang “Bill” Li won the 2020 JSA Postdoctoral Prize to run experiments that will examine proton structure from a lesser-studied perspective. A postdoctoral researcher at William & Mary, Li is studying proton structure just like many people...
21-Jul-2020 2:35 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Studying Small to Learn Big

Dien Nguyen (Zee-en Wen) studies some of the smallest units of matter on Earth to learn more about massive objects in space. Now, she’ll be conducting her research as the Nathan Isgur Postdoctoral Fellow in Nuclear Experiment at the Department of...
16-Jul-2020 12:10 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Precise Measurement of Pions Confirms Understanding of Fundamental Symmetry

Nuclear physicists have announced the most precise measurement yet of the ultra-short lifetime of the neutral pion. The result is an important validation of our understanding of the theory of quantum chromodynamics, which describes the makeup of...
7-Jul-2020 1:45 PM EDT Add to Favorites

EIC Center at Jefferson Lab Announces Six New Research Awards

The Electron-Ion Collider Center at the Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (EIC Center at Jefferson Lab) has announced the winners of six international fellowships. The fellows will pursue research over the next...
6-Jul-2020 9:50 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Analyzing Matter’s Building Blocks

Nobuo Sato is working to put the know in femto. He’s just been awarded a five-year, multimillion dollar research grant by the Department of Energy to develop a “FemtoAnalyzer” that will help nuclear physicists image the three-dimensional...
26-Jun-2020 3:30 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Particle Physicist Takes the Lead on Groundbreaking Electron Measurement

James “Jim” Fast has joined Jefferson Lab as the MOLLER Project Manager. MOLLER is the "Measurement of a Lepton-Lepton Electroweak Reaction" experiment that will measure the weak charge of the electron.
25-Jun-2020 3:10 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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