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Monday, May 21, 2001
Contact: Peter Bailley
news@knox.edu
309-341-7715
Thomas Fields, a scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, will give a talk, "The Search for Neutrino Mass" at 4:00 p.m., Thursday, May 24, in D-108 of the Umbeck Science Mathematics Center. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Fields is researching the mass of the neutrino, a subatomic particle that plays an important role in cosmological questions, such as how stars work and the ultimate fate of the universe. fields will discuss recent experiments at Argonne, in which a beam of neutrinos was sent underground from Chicago to Minnesota.
Argonne National Laboratory is a government-supported research center with facilities near Chicago and in Idaho. It conducts programs in basic science, nuclear energy, energy resources, environmental management and education.
Founded in 1837, Knox is an independent, four-year, liberal arts college in Galesburg, Illinois, with 1,220 students from 47 states and 41 nations. Knox's "Old Main" is a National Historic Landmark and the only building remaining from the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates.
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