The U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
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JLab Chief Scientist Named Fellowship Winner |
 Anthony W. "Tony" Thomas, Jefferson Lab's chief scientist, is one of 15 world-leading scholars selected to receive an inaugural Australian Laureate Fellowship. He will return to the University of Adelaide later this year to take up the fellowship and lead the newly created Research Centre for Complex Systems and the Structure of Matter.
Jefferson Lab's chief scientist is one of just 15 world-leading scholars selected to receive an inaugural Australian Laureate Fellowship. Anthony Thomas, who joined Jefferson Lab in 2004, will receive about $3 million over five years to conduct research, according to Sen. Kim Carr, Australia's minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research. The 15 fellowships will support the work of up to 60 postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers, who will work with the laureates. Thomas will return to the University of Adelaide later this year to take up the Fellowship and lead a new Research Centre for Complex Systems and the Structure of Matter. There, he will lead a team of theoretical physicists with skills in mathematical modeling and high-performance computing....... more |
Jefferson Lab User Guy Ron has won the 2008 JSA Thesis Prize for his work on low-energy proton form factors. The prize is awarded annually for the best Ph.D. dissertation resulting from research performed at Jefferson Lab.....
Jefferson Lab's Radiation Detector and Imaging Group, which developed a life-saving compact gamma camera for the improved detection of breast cancer, has been recognized with an award for "excellence in technology transfer" by the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer......
A new calculation clarifies the complicated relationship between protons and neutrons in the atomic nucleus and offers a fascinating resolution of the famous NuTeV Anomaly.......