SLAC Nobel Prizes

• Burton Richter (SLAC) and Samuel C. C. Ting (MIT) shared the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physics "for their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind." (Logbook page from J/Psi particle discovery experiment.)

• Richard E. Taylor (SLAC), Jerome I. Friedman (MIT), and Henry W. Kendall (MIT) shared the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics "for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics."

• Martin L. Perl won the 1995 Nobel Prize "for the discovery of the tau lepton." (Logbook page from the tau lepton discovery experiment.)

• Roger Kornberg won the 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription" (determining how DNA's genetic blueprint is read and used to direct the process of protein manufacture). A significant portion of his research was carried out at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL).

• Yoichiro Nambu (Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, IL) Makoto Kobayashi (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba, Japan) and Toshihide Maskawa (Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP), Kyoto University, Japan) share the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics for their studies of broken symmetries detected -- exactly as previously predicted by the Nobel laureates -- at both Babar (SLAC) and at Belle (KEK) in 2001.

• The SPEAR Storage Ring was the site of the discoveries which led to the award of the 1976 and 1995 prizes in physics, and of the 2006 prize in chemistry.

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