The judges have chosen the winning entries in the
first-ever FermiNews essay contest. FermiNews received a total of 36 entries
by the May 5 deadline. All were sent to the judges "blind," identified
only by letters of the alphabet, not by author.
Contest judges were :
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Robert Eisenstein, Assistant Director for Mathematical and Physical Sciences
of the National Science Foundation;
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Peter Rosen, Associate Director for High Energy and Nuclear Physics of
the Department of Energy;
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Curt Suplee, science writer and editor for The Washington Post;
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Michael Witherell, Chair of the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel.
We asked the judges to rank their top four choices in order. A first choice
received five points, a second choice three points, a third choice two
points and a fourth choice one point. The two essays with the most points
won.
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First-place winner Glen Crawford, an experimental
physicist from Stanford Linear Accelerator Facility, will receive
a bottle of Moët et Chandon Dom Pérignon Cuvée 1990
champagne.
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Second-place winner Joe Lykken, a theorist
from Fermilab, will receive a flag flown over the
U.S. Capitol in his honor, presented by Representative Vern Ehlers
(R-MI), a physicist and a member of the House Science Committee.
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