Marjorie Shapiro
{{short description|American experimental physicist}}
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Marjorie Dale Shapiro is an American experimental particle physicist, a collaborator on the ATLAS experiment, a faculty senior scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley.{{r|profile}}
Education and career
Shapiro graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1976, with a bachelor's degree in physics. She completed her Ph.D. in physics at the University of California, Berkeley in 1984 with her dissertation titled: Inclusive Distributions and Two Particle Correlations in Annihilation at 29 GeV Center-of-Mass Energy.{{r|cv}}
After postdoctoral research at Harvard, she joined the Harvard University faculty as an assistant professor in 1987, and was Loeb Associate Professor there in 1989. She returned to Berkeley as a faculty member in 1990, and became affiliated with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as a faculty senior scientist in 1992. She was promoted to professor at Berkeley in 1994, and has served as department chair from 2004 to 2007.{{r|cv}}
Recognition
In 1992, Shapiro was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), after a nomination from the APS Division of Particles and Fields, "for contributions to the study of high-transverse-momentum phenomena in proton-antiproton collisions".{{r|aps}} She was elected in 2020 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.{{r|amacad}}
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External links
- [http://physics.lbl.gov/shapiro/ Home page]
- [https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/oral-histories/46819 Oral history interview transcript with Marjorie Shapiro on 10 May 2021, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives]
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