Former LANL staff member from T-Div elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Jarzynski, Christopher; distinguished university professor and director, Institute for Physical Science and Technology, department of chemistry and biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park
Chris left LANL sometime after LANS came in.
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Nice, LANL has had several people in NAS. LLNL of course had Bob Laughlin who I think actually did most of his Nobel prize work while at LLNL. Now if only NIF comes through LLNL might bet another one, who knows.
I always felt that Mitch Feiganbaum who also did his work at LANL should have won a Nobel prize, he had been predicted as possibility for some time but passed away a few years ago. It would have been in chaos theory work. It seems like that prize has been overlooked as many of the possible candidates such Mandlebrot have also passed away, so I am not sure who would be the clear choice in this field anymore.
The field has become somewhat passé in recent years. I agree that Mitchell Feigenbaum was Nobel Laureate class. Unfortunately, the isn’t a Nobel Prize in mathematics and his work was never really applied in Physics. Benoit was certainly arrogant enough to be a Nobel Prize winner himself.
I always find it amusing how LANL highlights how FORMER employees win awards ...
In other words ... we had a good person here, but made their life miserable and so they left!
I always find it amusing how LANL highlights how FORMER employees win awards ...
In other words ... we had a good person here, but made their life miserable and so they left!
4/30/2020 10:26 AM
Exactly. Another odd thing is that when you mention to higher ups about these former people, they just say "who"? There are lots of former LANL people who are now NAS people who will tell what a hard time they had at LANL. It is a very odd place.
The top floor employees at LANL are “professional” managers. They ceased to be leaders the day John Browne was fired. Most of them couldn’t change a car tire, let alone lead an organization with Nobel Prize quality staff. We can thank the C-students at the DOE for making it so.
The top floor employees at LANL are “professional” managers.
I would not say they are "professional" managers. They seem to be sort of in their own class.
In most organizations managers rise through the ranks by being better, showing leadership skills, or organizational skills. At least at LANL management is a method of survival, if you have no skills, deal with people badly, and have no added technical value to the institution than management is the only way to survive in the lab, over time it creates a sense that if you a manager than must be a loser. The managers than start to resent the staff who sort of look down on them so stop interacting with the staff. This of course is exaggeration as there are some good managers and even some that have some technical skill however if you are honest you will have to admit that there is a lot of truth to this characterization of many LANL managers.
We can thank the C-students at the DOE for making it so.
4/30/2020 8:16 PM
Actually, we can thank the denizens of the emerald palace.
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