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Claude Lyneis

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Dates

April 17, 1943 – present

Authorized Form of Name

Lyneis, Claude, 1943-

Biography

Abstract

Claude Lyneis is Senior Physicist and Group Leader, ECR Accelerator Physics, at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (1982-present). Other institutional affiliations include Stanford University and Institut für Experimentelle Kernphysik. His research interests include electron cyclotron resonance and nuclear physics.

Important Dates

April 17, 1943Birth, Santa Monica (Calif.).

1965Obtained BS, University of Washington, Seattle (Wash.).

1973 – 1974Visiting Scientist, Institut für Experimentelle Kernphysik.

1974Obtained PhD in Physics, Stanford University, Stanford (Calif.).

1974 – 1982Research Associate, High Energy Physics Laboratory (1974-1979) and Senior Research Associate, High Energy Physics Laboratory (1979-1982), Stanford University, Stanford (Calif.).

1982 – presentStaff Scientist, Director of Operations and Development, 88-inch Cylotron (1982-1989); Senior Physicist and Program Head, 88-inch Cyclotron (1989-2009); Senior Physicist and Nuclear Science Deputy Director (2008-2011); and Senior Physicist and Group Leader, ECR Accelerator Physics (2009-present), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley (Calif.).

2001Awarded Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics, American Physical Society.

Occupation

Nuclear physicist.

Places

Birth

Santa Monica (Calif.)

Undergraduate Education

Seattle (Wash.)

Graduate Education

Stanford (Calif.)

Employment

Stanford (Calif.)

Berkeley (Calif.)

Subjects

Electron cyclotron resonance sources.

Heavy ions.

Nuclear physics.

Relationships

People

Colleagues

Alivisatos, P.

Both employed at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Chu, Steven

Both employed at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Clarke, John, 1942-

Both employed at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Cohen, Marvin L.

Both employed at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Diamond, R. M.

Both employed at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Drell, Persis S.

Both employed at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.

Falcone, Roger W.

Both employed at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Grunder, Hermann

Both employed at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.

Jacak, Barbara

Both employed at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.

Lee, Yuan Tseh, 1936-

Both employed at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.

Nagamiya, S. (Shoji)

Both employed at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.

Nygren, David R.

Both employed at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Oddone, Piermaria J.

Both employed at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Perlman, Isadore

Both employed at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.

Perlmutter, Saul

Both employed at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Poskanzer, A. M. (Arthur M.), 1931-

Both employed at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Randall, Lisa

Both employed at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.

Rosenfeld, Arthur H., 1926-

Both employed at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.

Sessler, A. M. (Andrew Marienhoff)

Both employed at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Shank, C. V. (Charles V.)

Both employed at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Shirley, David Arthur, 1934-

Both employed at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Smith, Neville, 1942-2006

Both employed at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Stephens, F. S. (Frank Samuel)

Both employed at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Trilling, George H.

Both employed at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Institutions

Major Positions

Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory

Staff Scientist, Director of Operations and Development, 88-inch Cylotron and Senior Physicist and Program Head, 88-inch Cyclotron.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Senior Physicist and Program Head, 88-inch Cyclotron; Senior Physicist and Nuclear Science Deputy Director; and Senior Physicist and Group Leader, ECR Accelerator Physics.

Universität Karlsruhe. Institut für Experimentelle Kernphysik

Visiting Scientist.

W. W. Hansen Laboratories of Physics

Research Associate and Senior Research Associate, High Energy Physics Laboratory.

Professional Activities & Affiliations

American Physical Society

Received 2001 Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics.

Stanford University. Department of Physics

Obtained PhD (1974).

University of Washington. Department of Physics

Obtained BS (1965).

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