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Indiana Gazette
April 14, 2018
“We did the first fundraiser at our house in California seven years ago,” said campaign co-chairman Bill Madia, of Montara, Calif., a former executive at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory who now chairs the board of overseers for the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center's National Accelerator Laboratory atÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
March 29, 2018
After less than a year at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, he returned to Stanford in 1962 to work at the nascent Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (or SLAC for short) and complete his dissertation. Scientists who had been smashing subatomic particles together had already discovered a menagerie ofÃâà...
Oak Ridger
March 28, 2018
The Office of Science's Science and User Support Building, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, Calif., was presented with DOE's Project Management Achievement Award; and. ‒ The National Nuclear Security Administration's Transuranic Waste Facility Project, Phase B, Los Alamos NationalÃâà...
Study Finds
March 22, 2018
MENLO PARK, Calif. — “Diamond rain” is a natural phenomenon that occurs in the two icy gas giants of our solar system, Uranus and Neptune. Now researchers from the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) have found a way to recreate the spectacular sparkling event in their laboratory for the firstÃâà...
Stanford University News
February 22, 2018
In 1961, he returned to California to work at the Lawrence Radiation Lab in Berkeley, but was drawn back to Stanford one year later with a role at what was then the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, at first to help establish the accelerator, then as a faculty member performing experiments as part of aÃâà...
Stanford University News
January 19, 2018
The first cryomodule has arrived at SLAC. Linked together and chilled to nearly absolute zero, 37 of these segments will accelerate electrons to almost the speed of light and power an upgrade to the nation's only X-ray free-electron laser facility.
Stanford University News
November 15, 2017
Quinn's career in particle physics began in the 1960s at Stanford, where she completed her bachelor's, master's and PhD degrees in physics. At the same time, SLAC – then the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center – was building the world's longest linear accelerator for unprecedented explorations of theÃâà...
CNET
November 9, 2017
The particle accelerator, originally called the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center when built in 1962 next to the prestigious university, extends west from the campus, slipping underneath Interstate 280 into the rolling, oak-dotted hills of Palo Alto, California. Its beam of high-speed electrons led to four NobelÃâà...
Stanford University News
July 10, 2017
Stanford has operated SLAC – originally known as the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center – since its founding in 1962. SLAC's research yard at dawn, seen from the radio tower overlook. The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is home to a 2-mile-long linear accelerator, a synchrotron and one of theÃâà...
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