Physicist William Christie is the operations coordinator for the STAR...

Physicist William Christie is the operations coordinator for the STAR detector, one of the experiments at Brookhaven Lab's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider or RHIC. Christie is show here with the Star Detector which was undergoing scheduled maintenance. (March 20, 2013) Newsday Photo / John Paraskevas Credit: Newsday John Paraskevas

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