10 Facts About Nan Phinney

Nan Phinney was born on 1945 and is a retired American accelerator physicist at SLAC.

Nan Phinney was program coordinator for the Stanford Linear Collider, the world's first linear collider.

Nan Phinney became an American Physical Society Fellow in 1993.

Nan Phinney is a granddaughter of photographer George R Lawrence.

Nan Phinney's dissertation was Trident Production in Coulomb Field, advised by John Smith.

From 1972 through 1980, Nan Phinney held post-doc positions from Ecole Polytechnique and the University of Oxford, working at CERN on high-energy particle physics experiments.

The group studied wide-angle scattering, and Nan Phinney's work was primarily data acquisition.

In 1981 Nan Phinney was one of the first physicists hired to work on the Stanford Linear Collider, the world's first linear collider.

In 2004 Nan Phinney was elected chair of the Division of the Physics of Beams executive committee of the American Physical Society.

Nan Phinney has served on the second International Linear Collider Technical Review Committee as well as the US Linear Collider Steering Group Accelerator Task Force and the United Kingdom Linear Collider Machine Advisory Committee.