What's NewThe What's New page contains information about recent developments on the Department of Energy (DOE) Research and Development (R&D) Accomplishments Web site, including additions of Database reports, Snapshots, Featured Topics, and other related topics of interest. It is divided into four general categories: Recently Added Features , Recently Added Database Reports, Recently Added Nobel Laureates, and Recently Added Snapshots.
Recently Added FeaturesNorman Ramsey, winner of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the invention of the separated oscillatory fields method and its use in the hydrogen maser and other atomic clocks" 'made pioneering advances in the methods of investigation; in particular, he contributed many refinements of the molecular beam method for the study of atomic and molecular properties, he invented the separated oscillatory field method of exciting resonances and, with the collaboration of his students, he was the principal inventor of the atomic hydrogen maser.' [added 2/2009] Steven Chu was recently selected to be the Secretary of Energy by Barack Obama. Chu, Director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and Professor in the Physics Department at the University of California, Berkeley, did his thesis and postdoctoral work at Berkeley in 1978 in the area of the observation of parity non-conservation in atomic transitions. Chu was co-winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics "for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light". [added 12/2008] Yoichiro Nambu was awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics" Nambu 'has revolutionized modern scientific ideas about the nature of the most fundamental particles and the space through which they move. His theories form an essential cornerstone of what physicists call the Standard Model, which explains in a unified way three of the four fundamental forces of nature: strong, weak and electromagnetic.' [added 12/2008] 'CAT and MRI scanners have revolutionized diagnosis of disorders of soft tissues, especially disorders of the head and brain. Most shock-trama units or major neurological clinics have one of these machines on-site or at their immediate disposal. The sophisticated mathematical techniques used to reconstruct the images of organs and tissues that doctors see with these amazing diagnostic instruments originated in particle detection methods developed by high-energy physicists.' [revised 11/2008] Recently Added Database Reports
Recently Added Nobel Laureates Nobel Laureates recently added to R&D Accomplishments are:
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