Marilyn Schneider

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Marilyn Beth Schneider (born 1952) [1] is an American physicist specializing in inertial confinement fusion, including the design of instrumentation to study laser-initiated fusion [2] and the design of hot hohlraums for nuclear weapons applications. [3] She is a distinguished member of the technical staff at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. [3]

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Education and career

Schneider majored in physics at Barnard College, and continued her studies at Cornell University, where she completed a Ph.D. in 1983. [4] Her dissertation was Defects, Diffusion and Fluctuations in Lyotropic Liquid Crystals. [1]

After postdoctoral research at Cornell, she joined the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 1986. Her work there has involved studying interface behavior and beam alignment in the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, Nova laser project, and National Ignition Facility, and leading the Radiative Properties Group at the laboratory. [4]

Recognition

Schneider was named as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (AMS) in 2013, after a nomination from the APS Topical Group on Instrument and Measurement Science, "for outstanding contributions to X-ray measurements in laser-produced plasmas". [5] She became a distinguished member of the technical staff in 2019. [3]

References

  1. 1 2 Defects, Diffusion and Fluctuations in Lyotropic Liquid Crystals (Ph.D. thesis, Cornell University, 1983), catalogued by ProQuest, HathiTrust, and Bibcode:1983PhDT........97S. Birth year from the HathiTrust record, which has a typo in the thesis title.
  2. ↑ Scientists create a novel instrument to probe thermal states of extreme matter on Earth, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, September 19, 2019, retrieved 2025-02-07
  3. 1 2 3 Six Lawrence Livermore scientists named Distinguished Members of Technical Staff, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, June 23, 2021, retrieved 2025-02-07
  4. 1 2 "Marilyn Schneider, experimental physicist", Women of NIF (PDF), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 2020, p. 31, retrieved 2025-02-07
  5. ↑ Four Lawrence Livermore researchers named 2013 APS Fellows, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, December 23, 2013, retrieved 2025-02-07
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