Don Lincoln
Don Lincoln | |
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| Born | |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Rice University |
| Known for | Studies of Quantum Chromodynamics Particle physics detector technology Public speaking |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Experimental particle physics |
| Institutions | Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory University of Notre Dame |
Don Lincoln is an American particle physics researcher at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and adjunct Professor of Physics at the University of Notre Dame[1]. He received a Ph.D. in experimental particle physics from Rice University in 1994. In 1995, he was a codiscoverer of the top quark.[2] He has coauthored hundreds of research papers and, more recently, was a member of the team finding evidence for the Higgs boson.[3]
Lincoln is a public speaker and science writer and has contributed many science articles in magazines that include Analog Science Fiction and Fact in July 2009. He is also the author of books describing particle physics written for the public. They are "Understanding the Universe: From Quarks to the Cosmos"[4] (2004), "Understanding the Universe: From Quarks to the Cosmos (Revised edition)"[5] (2012) and "The Quantum Frontier: The Large Hadron Collider" [6] (2009).
In recent years, he has been heavily involved in research using the DZero detector at the Fermilab Tevatron and also at the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. His popularizations also include columns that translate CMS[7] (monthly) and DZero[8] (biweekly) physics measurements for the public. He is also the author of a recurring segment, Physics in a Nutshell, in the Fermilab online newspaper[9]. Additionally, he has created several videos[10] that translate particle physics and cosmology for a lay audience.
References
- ^ http://physics.nd.edu/people/faculty/don-lincoln/
- ^ http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v74/i14/p2632_1
- ^ http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2012/PR17.12E.html
- ^ http://www.worldscibooks.com/physics/5430.html
- ^ http://www.worldscibooks.com/physics/8313.html
- ^ http://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/ecom/MasterServlet/GetItemDetailsHandler?iN=9780801891441&qty=1&source=2&viewMode=3&loggedIN=false&JavaScript=y
- ^ http://www.fnal.gov/pub/today/cms_resultofthemonth/index.html
- ^ http://www.fnal.gov/pub/today/resultoftheweek/index.html
- ^ http://www.fnal.gov/pub/today/physics_in_a_nutshell/index.html
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/user/fermilab/videos?sort=p&view=0