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@ENERGY National Lab for Exploring the Nature of Matter

 Newport News, VA
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Joined October 2009
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We're hiring a Procurement and Supply Chain Engineer to support our work on the Electron-Ion Collider. Learn more about this and other opportunities at Jefferson Lab: jobs.jlab.org
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For those of us who never outgrew our science phase, our merch has plenty of charm and zero strangeness. Find your new favorite Jefferson Lab gear at jlab.org/store
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Born on this day in 1885: Niels Bohr. In 1913, he proposed that electrons travel in quantized "stationary state" orbits around the nucleus. This model explains why atoms don't simply collapse. Bohr received the 1922 Physics Nobel.
Image of the Bohr model of the atom. The nucleus is depicted with red and yellow spheres, surrounded by three orbits with blue spheres representing electrons. The text "Bohr Model of the Atom" is visible in the top left corner.

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Tech transfer in action! 🤝 We've teamed up with Canary Instruments to bring a lab-developed radiation sensor to the emerging fusion energy market. Our inventors' subsurface monitor is a patented fusion safety solution born from nuclear physics research. jlab.org/news/releases/physi…
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A speaker stands at a podium in a conference room at the Science Museum of Virginia.

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A diagram of a continuous subsurface tritium monitoring detector. The image shows three storage tanks on the surface near a water body. A detector is illustrated underground, with a zoomed section highlighting its components. The image is labeled with US patent number 12,092,786 at the top right.

ALT A diagram of a continuous subsurface tritium monitoring detector. The image shows three storage tanks on the surface near a water body. A detector is illustrated underground, with a zoomed section highlighting its components. The image is labeled with US patent number 12,092,786 at the top right.

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Attention Hampton Roads: We will be conducting our monthly tornado siren test at 10:30 a.m. today. Residents within 1.5 miles of the laboratory may hear the siren. This is only a test. No need to take cover if you hear it.
Jefferson Lab poster announcing a tornado warning siren monthly test on Friday, October 2, 2026, at 10:30 a.m.

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Another step toward bringing MOLLER to life in Hall A. Our team recently reviewed progress on the hardware and systems that will help measure the electron’s weak charge with unprecedented precision and test the Standard Model. Take a look BTS. flickr.com/photos/jeffersonl…
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A person taking a photo with a smartphone of a complex, circular structure made of copper pipes and machinery parts.

ALT A person taking a photo with a smartphone of a complex, circular structure made of copper pipes and machinery parts.

A group of people stand in an industrial facility, attentively listening to a presentation.

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A group of people standing together indoors, posing for a photo. Behind them is a large display titled "Quarks and Gluons" with text and images related to particle physics.

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Science teachers, you’ve got a little more time! We’ve extended the application deadline for our free Jefferson Lab Science Activities for Teachers program to Oct. 2. jlab.org/news/releases/appli…
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#StormwaterAwarenessWeek is underway, and we do our part to protect the #ChesapeakeBay by preventing pollution at its source. Check out these photos from our annual campus cleanup event! flickr.com/photos/jeffersonl…
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A group of people wearing high-visibility vests are walking along a tree-lined road, picking up litter with grabbers and carrying trash bags. The scene depicts a roadside cleanup effort.

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We’re hiring a Storage Architect to lead the design of the distributed storage system behind the High-Performance Data Facility, supporting scientific data across Jefferson Lab and Berkeley Lab. Explore this and other opportunities: careers.jlab.org
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These glowing shapes aren’t abstract art. They’re lead-tungstate crystals for the EIC’s ePIC detector. More than 1,000 are now at Jefferson Lab for testing before they help measure the energy of beam-scattered electrons. jlab.org/news/stories/first-…
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Calling 5th, 6th and 8th grade physical science teachers! Applications are open for our free 2026-27 Jefferson Lab Science Activities for Teachers program. Apply by Sept. 25. jlab.org/stem/jsat
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Jefferson Lab will be closed on Monday, Sept. 7, in observance of Labor Day. Normal operations will resume Tuesday, Sept. 8.
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Attention Hampton Roads: We will be conducting our monthly tornado siren test at 10:30 a.m. today. Residents within 1.5 miles of the laboratory may hear the siren. This is only a test. No need to take cover if you hear it.
Image of a public safety announcement for a "Tornado Warning Siren Monthly Test" by Jefferson Lab. Scheduled for Friday, Sept. 4, 2026, at 10:30 a.m.

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For the third straight year, our commitment to environmental stewardship has earned us a Pretreatment Excellence Gold Award from @HRSDVA. See how a labwide collaboration helped us achieve perfect compliance with HRSD regulations: jlab.org/news/releases/labwi…
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We don’t always find what we expect when we look inside matter. The GlueX Collab set out to find one exotic particle candidate and instead found evidence of two others. jlab.org/news/releases/searc…
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Illustration of a particle interaction in a space-like background. Two particles labeled "u" and "d" collide with arrows pointing towards a larger, blue sphere containing particles labeled "s", "s̄", and a question mark.

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AI and fusion science: Our innovative machine learning framework predicts hardware shifts in fusion devices, boosting stability & advancing the pursuit of a superabundant energy source. And it's ready to deploy at @d3dfusion. ⚛️🌌🔥🖥️ Read more: jlab.org/news/stories/blendi…
Two individuals dressed in yellow and blue protective suits work inside the interior of a large, metallic, and circular fusion reactor chamber.

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Attention Hampton Roads: We will be conducting our monthly tornado siren test at 10:30 a.m. today. Residents within 1.5 miles of the laboratory may hear the siren. This is only a test. No need to take cover if you hear it.
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Staff scientist Vladimir Berdnikov has made a career mastering delicate materials and developing complex detector systems for nuclear physics. Now he's helping prepare the MOLLER experiment for data taking. jlab.org/people/vladimir-ber…
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Tommaso Rainaldi has been awarded the 2025 JSA Thesis Prize for a new approach to bridge theory and experiments on the structures of hadrons such as protons and neutrons. jlab.org/news/releases/novel…
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Can a material survive a trip through space and keep working when it gets there? That's what Sunil, a physics professor at @Norfolkstate, is trying to find out this summer through our @ENERGY Visiting Faculty Program.
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He and his students synthesize functional quantum materials at Norfolk State, then bring them to us to study how their structure and magnetic properties change under radiation, work that could shape future spacecraft, satellites and electronics.
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