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Monday, April 21, 2014

Where is LANL?

Where is LANL?

Notice that LBNL had two, LLNL had one, and even SNL had three winners of this big time award, whereas LANL had exactally zero, zip, zilch, nada.

Department of Energy

Dr. Brian Anderson, West Virginia University

Dr. Theodore Betley, Harvard University

Dr. Matthew Brake, Sandia National Laboratories

Mr. Adrian Chavez, Sandia National Laboratories

Dr. Gary Douberly, University of Georgia

Dr. Mattan Erez, University of Texas at Austin

Dr. Sean Hartnoll, Stanford University

Dr. Daniel Kasen, University of California at Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Dr. Meimei Li, Argonne National Laboratory

Dr. Miguel Morales, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Dr. Jennifer Reed, University of Wisconsin at Madison

Dr. Seth Root, Sandia National Laboratories

Dr. Adam Weber, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory


http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/12/23/president-obama-honors-outstanding-early-career-scientists
Anonymous said...
John Sarrao of LANL just won the E. O. Lawrence Award, a much bigger deal.
Anonymous said...
No APS Fellows from LANL this year either. Fitting for Rocky Flats II.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Who cares about science. At least we all wear "shoes that GRIP!" The latest slips & trips data at LANL looks absolutely faaaabulous.

Anonymous said...

APS fellowships are (almost) entirely political, with lots of mediocre fellows and lots of much better non-fellows floating around the complex. There are informal quotas involved, so if LANL didn't get any this year, maybe it's because LLNL didn't get any the previous year.

Anonymous said...

For a long time, each site gets one Lawrence Award, otherwise LBNL would take most of them.

Anonymous said...

"APS fellowships are (almost) entirely political ... informal quotas involved"

No, not really - they're evaluated by the APS units and approved by the APS council, without any political input or quotas involved, with the occasional exception of the embarrassing situation when they realize a new Nobel Laureate in Physics hasn't yet been elected an APS member. The larger factor is the willingness of mentors and institutions to put together nomination packages, which LANL did much better in 2011 and 2012, with 9 and 10 fellows, respectively, each year, compared to 1 each of those two years for LLNL. This year most likely reflects LANL having already put their most suitable candidates for APS fellowship, and LLNL working through their backlog.

Anonymous said...

"Even" SNL? In a great many cases SNL does better science than LLNL and LANL.

The difference is that SNL actually does the work rather than just lying about it.

Anonymous said...

The difference is that SNL actually does the work rather than just lying about it.

April 29, 2014 at 11:38 PM

It is certainly gratifying to learn that Sandia did not lie about the "Great Chili Cookoff".

Anonymous said...

So many trivial long-standing offenses here. I guess just letting go isn't part of the upbringing of the current generation. So thin-skinned, so self-absorbed. So sad.

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