Eric D. Isaacs named as 2017 National Academy of Inventors Fellow
Eric D. Isaacs, executive vice president for research, innovation and national laboratories at the University of Chicago has been named as a 2017 fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), the organization announced Tuesday. Election to NAI Fellow status is...
On eve of Nobel, reflecting on how LIGO nearly didn't get built
National Laboratories, Physical Sciences, Uncategorized
In October, LIGO's discovery of gravitational waves from two colliding black holes won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics. But three decades ago, it was a controversial project (even among the scientific community) in search of funding. Walter Massey, chancellor of the...