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SLAC Nobel Prizes
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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.)
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Richard E. Taylor (SLAC),
Jerome E. 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."
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Martin L. Perl won the 1995 Nobel Prize "for the
discovery of the tau lepton." (Logbook
page from the tau lepton discovery experiment.)
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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).
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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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