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\"Particle Physics Pioneer\" Anne Kernan Hand Signed Announcement Dated 1983:
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Up for sale "Particle Physicist" Anne Kernan Hand Signed Announcement Dated 1983.
– 11 May 2020) was a trailblazing Irish particle physicist. Kernan was born in 1933 to Annie Connor
and Frederick Kernan in Glasnevin. She was the second of four children
including Denis, Gerard, and Una. Kernan was educated in the Dominican College on Eccles St,
because they had a class in physics. She went on to study physics at University College Dublin graduating
with first-class honours in 1952. Kernan was the only woman in the class. After
graduation Kernan went on to complete her PhD in physics in her alma mater in
1957. Kernan worked there as a lecturer for four years. She also worked in the
University of Rochester.
Kernan won a post-doctoral scholarship at the Lawrence
Radiation Laboratory at the University
of California at Berkeley. Her next role was at the Stanford
Linear Accelerator Center. Finally in 1967, she joined the
Department of Physics at the University
of California, Riverside. She went on to become chair of the physics
department, vice chancellor for research and dean of the graduate division. In
each case Kernan was the first woman in all these roles. In 1983, Kernan worked
with Professor Carlo Rubbia and
Dr Simon van der Meer. She
led the US team on the CERN international Nobel-prize
winning experiment to discover the two sub-atomic particles, W and Z bosons. Kernan was invited to the Nobel Prize ceremony
in Stockholm. Kernan was part of the team that went on to
discover the top quark in 1995. She had been
working as part of the DZero experiment at the Tevatron collider at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago since 1986. Kernan was a fellow of
the American Physical Society and
the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She was a
supporter of women in STEM. She was a member of the American Physics Society
committee on the status of women in physics. When Kernan retired she moved to
Danvers, Massachusetts to live
with her sister and then to Panama City Beach in Florida where she died in 2020