Scientists developed a groundbreaking technology that allows them to see sound waves and microscopic defects inside crystals, promising insights that connect ultrafast atomic motion to large-scale macroscopic behaviors.
A materials scientist who specializes in superconductors, Sarrao brings a deep background in national lab leadership and the evolution of SLAC science.
Peter Dahlberg has combined two complex imaging techniques into one. The 2021 Panofsky Fellow adds cryo-ET and biosensors to fluorescence microscopy to give context to high-resolution images of individual proteins in cells.
Dr. Lev Okun will receive a special award created by the Open Society Institute (George Soros, Chairman) in recognition of his work in support of scientists in Russia. Sidney Drell will present the award on behalf of George Soros.
A sophisticated new "particle smasher" at Stanford University built to explore the difference between matter and antimatter came to life this week with the successful achievement of its first collisions.
Energy Secretary Bill Richardson today joined leading scientists from around the world at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) to dedicate a state-of-the-art research facility called the B Factory.
Burton Richter, Nobel Prize laureate and a pioneer of the colliders that now dominate high-energy physics, announced today that he will step down Aug. 31, 1999, as director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center after 15 years in the position.
It's finally happened. After extensions and delays, hand wringing and anxiety, the contract between Stanford University and the Department of Energy was signed on December 18, 1998 in a ceremony in Burton Richter's office at SLAC.
