Posted October 11, 2012
LCLS-II Project Director John Galayda to Receive Wilson Prize
John Galayda, who served as LCLS project director and is now directing its sequel, LCLS-II, has been named the 2013 winner of the Robert R. Wilson Prize for Achievement in the Physics of Particle Accelerators, awarded by the American Physical Society.
Posted August 10, 2012
Stanford Physicist Wins Prestigious Dirac Medal
At the peak of the Olympic Games, the gold medal of theoretical physics has just been announced. Stanford physics professor Shoucheng Zhang and two other physicists were awarded the Dirac Medal for their research on a novel type of matter known as a "topological insulator." Zhang is also a member of the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences (SIMES), a division of SLAC.
Posted October 10, 2012
Video: Brian Kobilka, 2012 Nobel Prize Recipient in Chemistry
Nobel laureate Brian Kobilka, MD, made a brief statement and answered questions at a news conference on Wednesday at Stanford's Li Ka Shing Center for Learning and Knowledge. He was joined by Stanford President John Hennessy and Philip Pizzo, MD, dean of the School of Medicine.
Posted October 10, 2012
Stanford's Brian Kobilka Wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Brian Kobilka, MD, professor and chair of molecular and cellular physiology at the Stanford School of Medicine, has won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on G-protein-coupled receptors. Kobika also conducted experiments at SLAC's Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource.
Posted October 9, 2012
Nobel Committee Honors Research by Particle Trappers
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics to Serge Haroche and David Wineland, two scientists who developed groundbreaking experimental methods that are the first steps toward building a new type of supercomputer known as a quantum computer.
Posted October 2, 2012
Panofsky Prize Honors Researchers' Underground Hunt for Dark Matter
The search for dark matter runs deep with physicists Blas Cabrera and Bernard Sadoulet, who have chased this mystery far underground and will be recognized for their work as joint recipients of the 2013 W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics.
Posted October 1, 2012
SLAC Professor Emeritus Helen Quinn to Receive 2013 Sakurai Prize
SLAC Professor Helen Quinn has been chosen to receive the 2013 J.J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics, awarded by the American Physical Society “to recognize and encourage outstanding achievement in particle theory.”
Posted September 11, 2012
James Cryan to Receive 2012 Spicer Young-Investigator Award
Now a postdoc at Berkeley Lab, former Stanford graduate student James Cryan is being honored for his innovative contributions to the development and execution of “pump-probe” experiments at SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source.
Posted September 6, 2012
Two SLAC Scientists Win Awards for LCLS Work
John Galayda, who served as project director for SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source and oversees its follow-up project, LCLS-II, and Daniel Ratner, a beam physicist in the LCLS laser group, were honored with achievement awards during the 34th annual International Free Electron Laser conference, held Aug. 26 to 31 in Nara, Japan.
Posted September 5, 2012
SIMES/PULSE Researcher Honored for Advancing Ultrafast X-ray Experimental Capabilities
Tim Miller, a graduate-student member of the SIMES and Stanford PULSE institutes, will receive the 2012 Melvin P. Klein Scientific Development Award for his leadership and ingenuity in establishing a new type of experimental capability that enables ultrafast X-ray experiments at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource.
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