U.S. ATLAS Collaboration Recognizes BNL Physicist Howard Gordon

July 15, 2015

Howard Gordon

Howard Gordon, an experimental elementary particle physicist at Brookhaven Lab, has played pivotal roles in the construction and operation of the ATLAS experiment, one of two large particle detectors that discovered signs of the Higgs boson through careful analysis of energetic proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider at Europe’s CERN laboratory. 

Gordon helped coordinate the design and construction of the ATLAS detector and has held several leadership positions within the U.S. branch of the ATLAS collaboration. He oversaw both the nationwide and Brookhaven Lab-specific efforts on ATLAS to maintain and operate the detector and provide the computing and physics analysis support to enable U.S. physicists to make discoveries with the data.

On June 25, the U.S. ATLAS collaboration honored Gordon with a Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his many important and pioneering contributions, his strong leadership, and his dedication to the success of the ATLAS experiment.

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