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Groundbreaking ceremony

Groundbreaking ceremony for SSRP (SSRL), including Pief Panofsky, Herman Winick, and Hobey DeStaebler, 1977.
January 31, 2023
Groundbreaking ceremony for SSRP (SSRL), including Pief Panofsky, Herman Winick, and Hobey DeStaebler, 1977.
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What In The Cell Is Going On? (recording)

Public lecture presented by Peter  D. Dahlberg

January 26, 2023  ·  01:00:39  runtime
cryo-EM image of Caulobacter bacterium
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SSRL’s 50th Anniversary group photo

Celebration of SSRL’s 50th Anniversary, group photo held on main quad on April 20, 2023.

May 9, 2023
SSRL’s 50th Anniversary group photo
Public Lecture Poster

Faster! Catching up to Electrons on the Move

Catching up to Electrons on the Move

January 8, 2024
Taran Driver Public Lecture poster
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How did Synchrotrons become global X-ray powerhouses?

SLAC Recent History (1973-2023 Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource) - How did Synchrotrons become global X-ray powerhouses?
May 23, 2023  ·  00:07:32  runtime
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Aalayah Spencer

Aalayah Spencer inside the Linac Coherent Light Source at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

February 13, 2023
Aalayah Spencer inside the Linac Coherent Light Source at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Spencer is a science and engineering associate in Experiment Control Systems at LCLS.
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Distorted quantum material

This illustration depicts a herringbone-like pattern in the atomic lattice of a quantum material created by researchers at SLAC and Stanford.

February 21, 2023
An illustration of a dramatic, herringbone-like pattern in the atomic lattice of a newly created quantum material. Against a black background, calcium atoms are seen as light blue spheres, cobalt atoms in dark blue and oxygen atoms in red. Lines connecting the oxygen atoms represent the atomic lattice.
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Accelerator aerial view

July 25, 2023
accelerator aerial view
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NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST Camera digital sensor

The LSST Camera's digital sensor, visible through the camera's five-foot front lens.

August 18, 2023
A digital camera sensor is visible through a large camera lens sitting inside a white room.
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Muonium atom

In this artist's depiction of how experimentalists could create true muonium, an electron (blue) and a positron (red) collide, producing...
October 18, 2022
muonium
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Thermopolis Archaeopteryx Fossil

The Thermopolis Archaeopteryx Fossil.
October 18, 2022
The Thermopolis Archaeopteryx Fossil.
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Faster! Catching up to electrons on the move (recording)

Public lecture presented by Taran Driver

November 30, 2023  ·  01:08:09  runtime
electron illustration
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