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An international collaboration of physicists conducting experiments at the Department of Energys Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) has discovered a second fundamental difference between the behavior of matter and that of antimatter.

BABAR event

Gregory Loew, professor of applied research at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), has been named deputy director of the center.

Gregory Loew

Charles Y. Prescott, physics professor and faculty chair at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), and Christopher Field, biology professor, by courtesy, and staff scientist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington on campus, have been elected to the National Academy...

headshot of Charles Prescott

The American Library Association (ALA) has honored Louise Addis, whose innovations in information technology spawned the world's first virtual library and made her America's first library webmaster.

web history

Pehong Chen, founder and CEO of BroadVision (Nasdaq: BVSN), and his wife, Adele, will donate $15 million to Stanford University to establish a new institute for the study of particle astrophysics and cosmology.

SLAC director Jonathan Dorfan; Pehong Chen, CEO of BroadVision; and President John Hennessy.

The international BABAR Collaboration at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) has just released initial results on the behavior of subatomic particles known as B mesons.

Particles collide in this illustration

The City of Menlo Park has given the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) a 2000 Environmental Quality Award in recognition of SLAC's success in reducing air pollution.

Science and User Support Building to the left and Arrillaga Science Center building to the right from above the Main Quad at SLAC's campus.

Scientists at DOEs Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) were in the last three days of the scheduled operation of the B Factorys PEP II collider with fingers crossed.

 SLAC B-Factory

President Clinton today named Sidney Drell as a winner of the Enrico Fermi Award, given for a lifetime of achievement in the field of nuclear energy. Dr. Drell will receive the award for his contributions to arms control and national...

Dr Sidney Drell Fermi Award

The award acknowledged the on-time, on-budget completion of the $293 million B Factory Project.

View down the tunnel of the Asymmetric B Factory.

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