• An accelerator physicist is a scientist who contributes to the field of Accelerator physics, involving the fundamental physical mechanisms underlying beams...
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    particle accelerator used for elementary particle physics is the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, operating since 2009. Nuclear physicists and cosmologists...
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    Rolf Widerøe (category Accelerator physicists)
    accelerator physicist who was the originator of many particle acceleration concepts, including the resonance accelerator and the betatron accelerator...
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  • Lia Merminga (category Accelerator physicists)
    (Lia) Merminga is a Greek-born accelerator physicist. In 2022, she was appointed director of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, the first woman to...
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  • Anatoli Bugorski (category Accelerator physics)
    retired particle physicist. He is known for surviving a radiation accident in 1978, when a high-energy proton beam from a particle accelerator passed through...
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    Frank Oppenheimer (category Accelerator physicists)
    Oppenheimer (14 August 1912 – 3 February 1985) was an American particle physicist, cattle rancher, professor of physics at the University of Colorado, and...
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  • 8m) allowing protons to be accelerated to energies of 160-175MeV. Accelerator physicist John Adams, who later went on to lead design of CERN's SPS, was...
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    Simon van der Meer (category Accelerator physicists)
    der Meer (24 November 1925 – 4 March 2011) was a Dutch particle accelerator physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984 with Carlo Rubbia...
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    Luis Walter Alvarez (category Accelerator physicists)
    Alvarez (June 13, 1911 – September 1, 1988) was an American experimental physicist, inventor, and professor who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in...
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  • Accelerator physics is a branch of applied physics, concerned with designing, building and operating particle accelerators. As such, it can be described...
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