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Laura Smilowitz

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American physicist

Laura Beth Smilowitz is an American physicist known for her development of technology that can record x-ray movies of explosions at high frame rates, and for shooting high explosives with lasers in order to synchronize their explosions with their recordings. She is a researcher at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where she heads the Weapons Chemistry team in the Physical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy group.

Education and career

Smilowitz graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1987, with a bachelor's degree in physics, and completed a Ph.D. in physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1993. After postdoctoral research at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and Brandeis University, she became a permanent staff member at Los Alamos in 1999.

Recognition

In 2017, Smilowitz was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), after a nomination from the APS Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter, "for pioneering radiography to study thermal explosions, including the development of both a scaled table-top dynamic radiographic facility capable of producing continuous X-ray movies of high speed events, and the triggering techniques required to observe the spontaneous onset of a thermal explosion". In the same year, she was also named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She was named a Fellow of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in 2019.

References

  1. ^ "Fellows nominated in 2017 by the Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter", APS Fellows archive, American Physical Society, retrieved 2021-01-25
  2. "X-rays reveal the anatomy of an explosion", Research highlights, Nature, 551 (7680): 275, 9 November 2017, doi:10.1038/d41586-017-05797-w, PMID 32080560, S2CID 4467759
  3. ^ Seven Los Alamos scientists and engineers honored as 2019 Laboratory Fellows, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 16 October 2019, retrieved 2021-01-25
  4. ^ Laura Smilowitz Named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2017, retrieved 2021-01-25
  5. "List of Graduates (1927–2018)", Department of Physics, Bryn Mawr College, retrieved 2021-01-25
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