Rebecca Charbonneau
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Historian of Science at The American Institute of Physics. Adjunct Asst Scientist at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. Author of Mixed Signals: Alien Communication Across the Iron Curtain (out now!)
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For the fuller story of how NSF took over site selection and decided to place the detectors at Hanford, Washington, and Livingston, Louisiana, check out Tiffany's lecture here at AIP this past spring
Tiffany Nichols : An Eclectic Array of Expertise:The Federal-Level Site Selection History of LIGO
YouTube video by AIP History
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August 22, 2025 at 3:29 PM
For the fuller story of how NSF took over site selection and decided to place the detectors at Hanford, Washington, and Livingston, Louisiana, check out Tiffany's lecture here at AIP this past spring
You have come up in conversation (very fondly!) by many people here already :-)
August 5, 2025 at 6:27 PM
You have come up in conversation (very fondly!) by many people here already :-)
I hope you enjoy it! :-)
July 31, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I hope you enjoy it! :-)