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Marjorie Dale Shapiro is an American experimental particle physicist,a collaborator on the ATLAS experiment,a faculty senior scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,and a professor of physics at the University of California,Berkeley. [1]
Shapiro graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1976,with a bachelor's degree in physics. She completed her Ph.D. in physics at the University of California,Berkeley in 1984 with her dissertation titled:Inclusive Distributions and Two Particle Correlations in Annihilation at 29 GeV Center-of-Mass Energy. [2]
After postdoctoral research at Harvard,she joined the Harvard University faculty as an assistant professor in 1987,and was Loeb Associate Professor there in 1989. She returned to Berkeley as a faculty member in 1990,and became affiliated with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as a faculty senior scientist in 1992. She was promoted to professor at Berkeley in 1994,and has served as department chair from 2004 to 2007. [2]
In 1992,Shapiro was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS),after a nomination from the APS Division of Particles and Fields,"for contributions to the study of high-transverse-momentum phenomena in proton-antiproton collisions". [3] She was elected in 2020 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. [4]
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