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Claudio Pellegrini Elected to National Academy of Sciences
Claudio Pellegrini, a distinguished professor emeritus of physics at UCLA and adjunct professor of photon science at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of his “distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.”
Beyond Femtoseconds
Researchers at SLAC are already looking at the largely unexplored realm of attosecond science.
New Ultrafast Science Fact Sheet
Our ultrafast science factsheet gives an overview of the femtosecond world.
How Do You Make Femtosecond Light?
Accelerator physicist Agostino Marinelli discusses how SLAC's X-ray laser makes femtosecond light.
Femtosecond Week
SLAC celebrates five days of ultrafast science.
SLAC Celebrates Femtosecond Week
Join us for five days of ultrafast science from April 17 to 21.
Three SLAC Employees Awarded Lab’s Highest Honor
Sila Kiliccote, Jodi Verleger and Lydia Young demonstrate what it means to live SLAC’s values.
Symmetry: The Life of an Accelerator
As it evolves, SLAC's linear accelerator illustrates some important technologies from the history of accelerator science.
Scientists, Interns Bring Structural Biology’s ‘Magic Bullet’ Technique to X-ray Lasers
The team determined the 3-D structure of a biomolecule by tagging it with selenium atoms and taking hundreds of thousands of images.
SLAC, Berkeley Lab Researchers Prepare for Scientific Computing on the Exascale
Two recently funded computing projects work toward developing cutting-edge scientific applications for future exascale supercomputers that can perform at least a billion billion computing operations per second.
