Each year, up to three individuals or teams who have distinguished themselves through outstanding achievement and personal excellence are selected to receive this honor.
Scheduled to begin its observations of the cosmos in 2021, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will capture a continuous stream of images and generate massive datasets of roughly half the visible sky every night.
An experiment at the Argonne Wakefield Accelerator demonstrates the potential of a novel metamaterial structure to yield higher accelerating gradients than current particle accelerator technology provides.