David R. Nygren

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David R. Nygren
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BornDecember 30, 1938 (1938-12-30) (age 83)
Alma materB.A. Whitman College (1960), Ph.D. University of Washington (1967)
Known forInvention of Time projection chamber
Awards E. O. Lawrence Award (1985)
Panofsky Prize (1998)
IEEE Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award (2018)
Scientific career
FieldsParticle Physics
Institutions University of Texas, Arlington, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley

David Robert Nygren (born December 30, 1938) is a particle physicist known for his invention of the time projection chamber. [1] He is a Presidential Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of Texas at Arlington now. He has worked at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory since 1973. [2] He has been called "the most distinguished developer of particle detection instruments in the country". [2]

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Nygren earned his B.A. degree at Whitman College in 1960, and his Ph.D. at the University of Washington in 1967. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society. [3]

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