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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Is our Universe standing still? Examining Einstein’s key theory through the cosmic “yin-yang”
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LHC, the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, emerges from hibernation
The LHC has a long, productive life ahead of it. An upgraded version, called the “High Luminosity LHC,” will be available in 2028.
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Each of our bodies is proof of Einstein’s equation
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Stars’ strange orbits may offer clues on dark matter
Stars orbiting black holes were observed to move significantly slower than expected. One explanation centers on dark matter.
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The multiverse is an idea that has gained a lot of traction in popular culture. But what does science have to say about it?
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