Bill Higgins: Fermilab
William S. Higgins is a radiation safety physicist at Fermilab, where he has been involved with the transport of high-energy particle beams for over 33 years. He frequently speaks and writes about astronomy, spaceflight, and the history of science and technology. Bill is a former science columnist for the Lerner chain of newspapers and a volunteer in NASA’s Solar System Ambassadors outreach program.
He is a member of the Naperville Astronomical Association. Recently he has written about Robert Cornog, a little-known Manhattan Project physicist; about the process by which antimatter, originating with physicists in the 1930s, became a plaything of science fiction in the 1940s; and about the final days of the Tevatron accelerator.
Bill Higgins and his Fermi associate, Todd Johnson, will be our esteemed tour guides extraordinaire at Fermi on Thursday afternoon, July 5, in addition to ALCon2012 speakers at the Marriott Lincolnshire. Thanks so much!
I can’t wait to find out just what device Bill is modeling… but my mind is racing with ideas.