What's New

The What's New page contains information about recent developments on Department of Energy (DOE) Research and Development (R&D) Accomplishments, including additions of Database reports, Snapshots, Featured Topics, and other related topics of interest. It is divided into general categories: Recently Added Features , Recently Added Database Reports, and Recently Added Laureates.

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Recently Added Features

John C. Mather won the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physics with George F. Smoot (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) "for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation”.   Mather and Smoot analyzed data from NASA's COsmic Background Explorer (COBE), which studied the pattern of radiation from the first few instants after the universe was formed.  Mather’s Ph.D. thesis work, which was done under the auspices of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), was the foundation for the COBE satellite project. [added 2/2013]

Tsung-Dao Lee won the Nobel Prize in physics for disproving a tenet of physics known as the conservation of parity. His finding was based on research carried out at Brookhaven National Laboratory’s particle accelerator, the Cosmotron, while he was a visiting scientist at the Laboratory in 1956.  In 1997, forty years after receiving the Nobel Prize, Lee returned to Brookhaven Lab as Director of the RIKEN BNL Research Center. [added 1/2013]

Brian Kobilka has won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry thanks in part to research performed at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory's (ANL) Advanced Photon Source.  He was awarded the prize for his work on G-protein-coupled receptors. [added 10/2012]

L. James Rainwater  worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II, mainly doing pulsed neutron spectroscopy.  He was a winner of the  1975 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the connection between collective motion and particle motion in atomic nuclei and the development of the theory of the structure of the atomic nucleus based on this connection" and later received the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award for his contributions to nuclear physics.  [added 10/2012]

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Recently Added Database Reports

• A-3209; Improved Technique of Hydrogen Content Analysis by Slow Neutron Scattering; February 1945 [added 10/2012]
  
  
• BNL-443; Elementary Particles and Weak Interactions; 1957 [added 1/2013]
  
  
• BNL--16828; High Energy Electromagnetic and Weak Interaction Processes; 1972 [added 10/2012]


• CUD-55; Higher Resolution Neutron Velocity Spectrometer Measurements of Enriched Uranium; August 9, 1950 [added 10/2012]


• CUD-92; Slow Neutron Velocity Spectrometer Transmission Studies Of Pu; May 28, 1951 [added 10/2012]
  
  
• FERMILAB-FN-0793-A; Report of the Dark Energy Task Force; 2006 [added 2/2013]
  
  
• LBL--2258;  Far Infrared Spectrometry of the Cosmic Background Radiation; 1974 [added 2/2013]


• NEVIS-49; Weak Interactions; 1957 [added 1/2013]
  
  
• NEVIS-50; Conservation Laws in Weak Interactions; 1957 [added 1/2013]
  
  
• NYO--1932(2)-186; History of Weak Interactions; 1970 [added 1/2013]
  
  

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Recently Added Laureates

Laureates recently added to R&D Accomplishments are:

• John C. Mather, the Big Bang, and the COBE [added 2/2013]
  
  
• Tsung-Dao Lee, Weak Interactions, and Nonconservation of Parity [added 1/2013]
  
  
• Brian K. Kobilka and G-protein-coupled Receptors (GPCR) [added 10/2012]
  
  
• L. James Rainwater and the Atomic Nucleus [added 10/2012]
  
  

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