Physicist Igor Pinayev joined Brookhaven National Laboratory’s National Synchrotron Light Source department this month. He previously was an assistant research professor in the department of physics at Duke University.
The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research and the Dzhelepov Laboratory of Nuclear Problems, both in Dubna, Russia, jointly presented the 2003 Bruno Pontecorvo Prize this past January to Yoji Totsuka, director general of KEK, the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization in Tsukuba, Japan. He was acknowledged for his “outstanding contribution to the discovery of atmospheric muon neutrino oscillations.”
Anthony Thomas, Elder Professor of Physics at the University of Adelaide in Australia, joined the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in March as the chief scientist and theory group leader.