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Lost Video of Georges Lemaître, Father of the Big Bang, Recovered
January 26, 2023 / Lauren Biron / Berkeley Lab News Center ~ European broadcast network VRT found a 20-minute recording that is thought to be the only video of Lemaître. His interview, originally aired in 1964 and conducted in French, has now been transcribed and translated into English by Satya Gontcho A Gontcho, a physicistRead More
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Nu Xu receives 2022 Humboldt Research Award
January 19, 2023 / Berkeley Lab Physical Sciences News ~ Nu Xu, a senior scientist in Berkeley Lab’s Nuclear Science Division (NSD), has received a prestigious 2022 Humboldt Research Award. Xu plans to use this opportunity to spend time in Germany collaborating with colleagues there studying the QCD properties of nuclear matter. Xu’s research in NSD’sRead More
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Voices From the Past Continue to Emerge Thanks to Improved Technology
January 12, 2023 / Berkeley Lab Elements ~ When Carl Haber, a senior scientist in Berkeley Lab’s Physics Division, first heard the crackling sound and the voice of Alexander Graham Bell emerge from a recording made 140 years ago, Haber exclaimed, “We got him!” Now he and partner Earl Cornell, of the Lab’s Engineering Division, areRead More
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ATAP researchers elected to leadership positions in APS Divisions of Plasma Physics and Physics of Beams
December 20, 2022 / Berkeley Lab Physical Sciences News ~ Three researchers in Berkeley Lab’s Accelerator Technology & Applied Physics (ATAP) Division have been elected to Executive Committee positions in the American Physical Society (APS). Cameron Geddes and Soren Prestemon will serve Chair-Line positions (serving their first year as Vice-Chair, the second year as Chair-Elect,Read More