Don Lincoln

Don Lincoln
Born	1964 New York City, New York
Residence	Chicago area, Illinois
Nationality	American
Fields	Experimental particle physics
Institutions	Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory University of Notre Dame
Alma mater	Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Rice University
Known for	Studies of Quantum Chromodynamics Searches for new phenomena Particle physics detector technology Public speaking Science popularization

Don Lincoln (born 1964) is an American particle physics researcher at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and adjunct Professor of Physics at the University of Notre Dame.^[1] He received a Ph.D. in experimental particle physics from Rice University in 1994. In 1995, he was a codiscoverer of the top quark.^[2] He has coauthored hundreds of research papers and, more recently, was a member of the team finding evidence for the Higgs boson.^[3]

Lincoln is a public speaker and science writer and has contributed many science articles in magazines that include Analog Science Fiction and Fact in July 2009, Scientific American in November 2012 and July 2015,^[4] and The Physics Teacher at least six times.^[5] He is also the author of books describing particle physics written for the public. They are "Understanding the Universe: From Quarks to the Cosmos (Revised edition)"^[6] (2012) and "The Quantum Frontier: The Large Hadron Collider" ^[7] (2009) and "The Large Hadron Collider: The Extraordinary Story of the Higgs Boson and Other Things That Will Blow Your Mind" ^[8] (2014). In 2013, he released a book called "Alien Universe: Extraterrestrials in our Minds and in the Cosmos,"^[9] which explains how the common images of extraterrestrials came to enter Western culture and then goes on to explore what modern physics, chemistry and biology can tell us about what real intelligent alien life might be like. He been involved in a number of videos dedicated to dessiminating discoveries in particle physics and since July 7, 2011 has been a keynote speaker for a series produced by Fermilab that explores the range of issues dominating particle physics today in an accessible and sometime humorous way. Among the topics included in the series are the Higgs Boson, Anti-matter, the nature of Neutrinos, the concepts of the Big Bang, Cosmic Inflation, the Multiverse and Supersymmetry.

In recent years, he has been heavily involved in research using the DZero detector at the Fermilab Tevatron and also at the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. His popularizations also include columns that translate CMS^[10] (monthly) and DZero^[11] (biweekly) physics measurements for the public. He is also the author of a recurring segment, Physics in a Nutshell, in the Fermilab online newspaper^[12] and blogs for the television show NOVA website.^[13] Additionally, he has created several videos^[14] that translate particle physics and cosmology for a lay audience.

Lincoln is a Fellow of the American Physical Society^[15] and he received the 2013 European Physical Society HEPP Outreach award for “for communicating in multiple media the excitement of High Energy Physics to high-school students and teachers, and the public at large”.^[16]

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