Winners: Robert Palmer

Robert Palmer

Physicist

Robert Palmer of Shoreham recently received the 2010 Advanced Accelerator Concepts Prize at a workshop in Maryland for his "outstanding leadership in pioneering many concepts in advanced accelerator science." Palmer is a senior physicist and head of the Advanced Accelerator Group at Brookhaven National Laboratory. He is a board member of the Muon Collider Collaboration and inventor of the inverse free electron laser, an instrument that gains energy from light and accelerates particles.