Edwin McMillan

Edwin McMillan

male, deceased (1991)
Princeton University alumni, Princeton University, University of California, Berkeley, academic degree, National Medal of Science recipient, Scottish-American…synchrotron
Edwin Mattison McMillan (September 18, 1907 - September 7, 1991) was the first scientist to produce a transuranium element. He was born in Redondo...
Dorte Juul Jensen

Dorte Juul Jensen

female
Metallurgist, Science writer, Journal editor, electron microscopy, Danish, roskilde…synchrotron
Dorte Juul Jensen is a senior scientist and head of the Center for Fundamental Research: Metal Structures in Four Dimensions, Risø National L...
Dale R. Corson

Dale R. Corson

male, 95 years old
University of California, Berkeley alumni, president of Cornell University, Cornell University, University of California, Berkeley, synchrotron, College of Emporia
Dale R. Corson (b. 1914) was the eighth president of Cornell University. Born in Pittsburg, Kansas, in 1914, Corson received a B.A. degree from the...
Luis Walter Alvarez

Luis Walter Alvarez

male, deceased (1988)
physicist, 1911-1988, Collier Trophy recipient, spaniard, radar, inventor…synchrotron
Luis W. Alvarez (June 13, 1911 - September 1, 1988) of San Francisco, California, USA, was a famed Nobel Prize-winning physicist of Spanish...
Maria Spiropulu

Maria Spiropulu

female
Harvard University, Particle physicist, Fermilab, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Bachelor’s degree, supersymmetry…synchrotron
Maria Spiropulu was born in 1970 in Kastoria, a small mountain town of Greece, and is an experimental physicist; she is currently based at CERN,...

Albrecht Fölsing

male
physicist, writer, German, einstein, Scientific journalist, synchrotron
Albrecht Fölsing is a trained physicist turned into a scientific journalist. Having studied physics in Berlin, Philadelphia, and Hamburg, he w...
Albert Baez

Albert Baez

male, deceased (2007)
war industry, Methodist, Syracuse University, Paul Kirkpatrick, quaker, Albert Vinicio Baez…synchrotron
Albert Vinicio Baez, Ph.D. (November 15, 1912, - March 20, 2007) was a prominent Mexican-American physicist. He was born in Puebla, Mexico, and his...

Mikheil Vashakidze

male, deceased (1956)
Astronomer, Vashakidze, Crab Nebula, polarization, Byurakan Observatory, Victor Alekseyevich Dombrovsky…synchrotron
Mikheil Alexandres dze Vashakidze was a Georgian astronomer working in the Georgian astrophysical observatory from 1936 to 1956. He and Victor...

Chris Glover

PhD, Australian, scientist, synchrotron, Beamline, Australian Synchrotron Project…Synchrotron Radiation Summer School (Canberra
Chris Glover was first introduced to Synchrotron Radiation in 1996.   His PhD studies involved significant use of EXAFS to characterise atomic s...
Sebastian Doniach

Sebastian Doniach

male, 75 years old
Stanford University, physicist, cambridge university, British, Superconductivity, university of liverpool…synchrotron radiation, Stanford Synchrotron, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory
Sebastian Doniach (born 1934) is a British-American physicist and professor at Stanford University. Doniach's research group at Stanford uses...