Don Lincoln

Don Lincoln

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Dr. Don Lincoln is a Senior Scientist at Fermilab, America’s leading particle physics laboratory, who has coauthored over 1,500 scientific papers. He was a member of the teams that discovered the top quark in 1995 and the Higgs boson in 2012.

Dr. Lincoln is also an avid popularizer of science. He has written several books for the public, most recently Einstein’s Unfinished Dream. He also writes for many online venues, such as CNN and Scientific American. He appears frequently on the Fermilab YouTube channel and has made several video courses available through The Great Courses company.

Dr. Lincoln is a recipient of the 2013 Outreach Prize from the European Physical Society and the 2017 Gemant Award from the American Institute of Physics. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

You can learn more about Dr. Lincoln on his home page, and you can follow him on Facebook. 

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Hard Science
Mass misconception: The real reason we can’t outpace light speed
Explanations for the cosmic speed limit often conflate mass with inertia.
Don Lincoln
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Hard Science
Is mathematics the empress of science? A physicist weighs in.
Physicist Don Lincoln explains why mathematics is a powerful tool for scientific modeling, but is not a science itself.
Don Lincoln
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Hard Science
Will physics ever prove that gravitons are real?
Despite no experimental evidence showing that gravitons exist, they remain a respectable concept in the world of professional physicists.
Don Lincoln
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Hard Science
Scientists find record high-energy cosmic ray electrons, but origin remains elusive
A recent measurement has simultaneously settled an ongoing scientific debate while puzzling scientists.
Don Lincoln
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Hard Science
Einstein wins again: Exotic gravity theories take a blow from new observations
DESI has allowed astronomers to create an unprecedented 3D map of the Universe representing 20% of the entire sky.
Don Lincoln
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Hard Science
You’re made of energy: The strange truth about where mass comes from
"A person’s mass is made not of 'stuff' in the way we normally think about it, but rather our mass is made of energy."
Don Lincoln
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Hard Science
Signs of “neutrino fog” emerge, complicating searches for dark matter
The race to find dark matter could grow more complex with high-energy neutrino interference.
Don Lincoln
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