Nobel Prizes
SLAC's accelerators provide intense beams of high energy electrons and positrons, and x-ray photons. Experiments using these beams have resulted in important discoveries and advances in high energy particle physics, chemistry, biology and materials science. These achievements are widely recognized. Most notably, SLAC research has led to three Nobel prizes in physics and one in chemistry.
Nobel Prizes in Physics
- 1976 - Charm: The 4th Quark
- 1990 - Quarks Revealed: Structure Inside Protons and Neutrons
- 1995 - Tau: The Third Electron-Like Particle
Want to learn more? Visit Nobel Laureates in Physics 1901- Present.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 2006 - Molecular basis of Eukaryotic Transcription
