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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
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Anonymous said...
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John Sarrao of LANL just won the E. O. Lawrence Award, a much bigger deal.
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Anonymous said...
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No APS Fellows from LANL this year either. Fitting for Rocky Flats II.
Monday, April 21, 2014
Where is LANL?
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Who cares about science. At least we all wear "shoes that GRIP!" The latest slips & trips data at LANL looks absolutely faaaabulous.
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.
For a long time, each site gets one Lawrence Award, otherwise LBNL would take most of them.
"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.
"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.
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".
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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