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| Mary R. M. Bishai | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1970 (age 53–54) Nigeria |
| Alma mater | University of Colorado Boulder Purdue University |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Brookhaven National Laboratory Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory |
| Thesis | A study of semileptonic and 2-body decays of charm strange baryons, a search for CP violation in Xi hyperon decays and a study of surface-treated planar microstrip gas chambers (1999) |
| Doctoral advisor | Ephraim Fischbach |
| Website | www |
Mary R. M. Bishai (born 1970) is an American physicist who is a Distinguished Scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory. In 2023, she was elected spokesperson of Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, and was made responsible for the 1,400 person collaboration. She was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2015.
Early life and education
Bishai was born to a family of engineers. Her father had a PhD in electrical engineering and her grandfather was a science teacher. She grew up in Nigeria and Egypt and is of Egyptian descent. In 1985, she read a National Geographic magazine about particle physics experiments taking place at CERN, and decided that was what she wanted to work on. She was an undergraduate student in physics at University of Colorado Boulder, then moved to Purdue University for graduate studies, where she worked on the CLEO experiment at Cornell University. She worked on parity violations in the decays of charm-strange baryons. She was awarded the Purdue University George W. Tautfest Award, an award that honors outstanding physics graduate students.
Research and career
In 1998, Bishai joined Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory as a research associate, where she was involved with Tevatron. She worked on quantum chromodynamics.
Bishai joined Brookhaven National Laboratory in 2004. She was hired to work on the MINOS experiment, a long baseline neutrino project. Her recommendations enabled the CD-0 decision from the United States Department of Energy that enabled the Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment. She was part of the team who measured the J/psi meson cross sections at the Collider Detector at Fermilab.
Selected publications
- F. P. An; J. Z. Bai; A. B. Balantekin; et al. (April 2012). "Observation of Electron-Antineutrino Disappearance at Daya Bay". Physical Review Letters. 108 (17): 171803. arXiv:1203.1669. doi:10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.108.171803. ISSN 0031-9007. PMID 22680853. Wikidata Q27448668.
- Phil Adamson; D J Auty; D S Ayres; et al. (27 October 2011). "Improved search for Muon-neutrino to electron-neutrino oscillations in MINOS". Physical Review Letters. 107 (18): 181802. arXiv:1108.0015. doi:10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.107.181802. ISSN 0031-9007. PMID 22107623. Wikidata Q58379444.
- M. S. Alam; I. J. Kim; Z. Ling; et al. (10 April 1995). "First measurement of the rate for the inclusive radiative penguin decay b-->s gamma". Physical Review Letters. 74 (15): 2885–2889. doi:10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.74.2885. ISSN 0031-9007. PMID 10058050. Wikidata Q27349109.
Awards and honors
In 2015, Bishai was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society "For her contributions to flavour physics,".
Bishai was elected the spokesperson of Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment in 2023. As spokesperson, Bishai is responsible for leading the 1,400 member neutrino collaboration. DUNE will send the most intense neutrino beam in the world from Fermilab to the Sanford Underground Research Facility.
References
- ^ Bishai, Mary R. M. (1999). A study of semileptonic and 2-body decays of charm strange baryons, a search for CP violation in Xi hyperon decays and a study of surface-treated planar microstrip gas chambers. purdue.edu (PhD thesis). Purdue University. OCLC 1194793889. ProQuest 304523942.
- ^ "Women @ Energy: Mary Bishai". bnl.gov. Brookhaven National Laboratory. Retrieved 2023-03-22.
- "Mary Bishai | Faces of DUNE". dunescience.org. Retrieved 2023-03-22.
- University, Purdue Physics and Astronomy, Purdue. "Awards to the Graduate Students: Department of Physics and Astronomy: Purdue University". purdue.edu. Retrieved 2023-03-22.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "BNL | Staff | Mary Bishai, Physics Department". bnl.gov. Retrieved 2023-03-22.
- ^ "Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Four Scientists With Major Contributions to Research at Brookhaven Lab Named American Physical Society Fellows". nanotech-now.com. Retrieved 2023-03-22.
- ^ "Brookhaven Lab Physicist Mary Bishai Elected DUNE Co-Spokesperson". Brookhaven National Laboratory. Retrieved 2023-03-22.
- Acosta, D.; Collaboration, C. D. F. (2005-02-03). "Measurement of the J/Psi Meson and b-Hadron Production Cross Sections in ppbar Collisions at sqrt s = 1960 GeV". Physical Review D. 71 (3): 032001. arXiv:hep-ex/0412071. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.71.032001. ISSN 1550-7998. S2CID 35434349.
- "Brookhaven Lab Physicist Mary Bishai Elected DUNE Co-Spokesperson". newswise.com. Retrieved 2023-03-22.
- 1970 births
- Living people
- Purdue University alumni
- University of Colorado Boulder alumni
- Brookhaven National Laboratory staff
- 20th-century American physicists
- 21st-century American physicists
- American women physicists
- Fellows of the American Physical Society
- 20th-century American women scientists
- 21st-century American women scientists
- American people of Egyptian descent