Biography:Beth Nordholt
Beth Nordholt | |
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| Born | Jane Elizabeth Nordholt |
| Known for | Quantum communication, space plasma physics |
| Spouse(s) | Richard Hughes |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Los Alamos National Laboratory |
Jane Elizabeth (Beth) Nordholt is an American physicist known for her work in space science on mass spectrometry of the solar wind and rings of Saturn[1][2][3] and the flow of water vapor in the Earth's polar wind,[4] and for her work in digital security on devices for quantum key distribution[5][6][7][8] and random number generation.[9][10][11] Until her retirement, she worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory, which in 2006 named her as a Laboratory Fellow.[1][12]
Early life and education
Nordholt is the daughter of John B. (Jack) Nordholt Jr., a former Marine and owner of Webster Manufacturing, and of Joanne Pedigo Nordholt.[13] She is a 1976 graduate of Columbian High School in Tiffin, Ohio.[14] She earned a bachelor's degree in 1980 from Rutgers University, and a master's degree in physics in 1983 from the California Institute of Technology.[15]
Career and research
She helped to design the ion mass spectrometer (IMS) for the spacecraft Cassini to gather information on Saturn's environment.[2] She also contributed to instrumentation for NASA Deep Space 1 and Genesis missions.[1][16]
Nordholt has many patents in the area of quantum communication including quantum key distribution, random number generation, and implementations for optical fiber or free space optical communication.[17] She was a co-team leader for the Los Alamos National Laboratory quantum communications project.[6]
Awards and honours
In 2001, she received an R&D 100 Award as part of the Los Alamos National Laboratory Free-Space Quantum Cryptography project.[18][19]
She became a laboratory fellow at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in 2006.[1]
Personal life
As of 2013, she was married to Richard Hughes, a physicist and collaborator at Los Alamos National Laboratory.[6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Laboratory Fellows from 1981 to the present, Los Alamos National Laboratory, November 2016, https://www.lanl.gov/collaboration/fellows/fellows-biographies.php, retrieved 2020-01-05
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Los Alamos Instrument Yields New Knowledge Of Saturn's Rings", ScienceDaily, October 15, 2004, https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/10/041014074119.htm
- ↑ "Solar wind samples give insight into birth of solar system", ScienceDaily, June 23, 2011, https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110623161941.htm
- ↑ Friebele, Elaine (1997), "Dehydration", Eos: Transactions of the American Geophysical Union 78 (31): 318, doi:10.1029/eo078i031p00318-03, Bibcode: 1997EOSTr..78S.318F
- ↑ Giordani, Adrian (February 15, 2012), "Unbreakable smartphones", ScienceNode, https://sciencenode.org/spotlight/unbreakable-smartphones.php
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Snodgrass, Roger (May 17, 2013), "Los Alamos team ready for next step on quantum communications project", Santa Fe New Mexican, https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/health_and_science/los-alamos-team-ready-for-next-step-on-quantum-communications/article_2bcf1569-9b35-5546-af3b-a5ac8273a821.html
- ↑ Scientists demonstrate ultra-secure, long-distance quantum key distribution, phys.org, December 22, 2006, https://phys.org/news/2006-12-scientists-ultra-secure-long-distance-quantum-key.html
- ↑ "The solace of quantum: Eavesdropping on secret communications is about to get harder", The Economist, May 25, 2013, https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2013/05/25/the-solace-of-quantum
- ↑ Folger, Tim (August 16, 2018), "How Physicists Are Making Sure We Never Run Out of Random Numbers", Discover, https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/random-numbers-in-physics-play-a-role-in-everything-from-spy-rings-to
- ↑ Five Los Alamos innovations win R&D 100 Awards, Los Alamos National Laboratory, November 2016, https://www.lanl.gov/museum/news/newsletter/2016-12/r-d100.php, retrieved 2021-03-14
- ↑ Snodgrass, Roger (December 1, 2016), "LANL's Entropy Engine Appears Perfectly Unpredictable", Los Alamos Daily Post, https://www.ladailypost.com/content/lanl%E2%80%99s-entropy-engine-appears-perfectly-unpredictable
- ↑ A short history of women at Los Alamos, Los Alamos National Laboratory, March 2018, https://www.lanl.gov/discover/science-briefs/2018/March/0322-history-of-women.php, retrieved 2021-03-14
- ↑ "Joanne Pedigo Nordholt 1918 – 2017", Daily Press, April 8, 2017, https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/dailypress/obituary.aspx?n=joanne-pedigo-nordholt&pid=184987819
- ↑ Columbian Yearbook Blue and Gold, 1976, p. 31, https://ohiomemory.org/digital/collection/p15005coll27/id/51889/rec/1
- ↑ Eighty-Ninth Annual Commencement, California Institute of Technology, June 10, 1983, p. 16, https://caltechcampuspubs.library.caltech.edu/2491/1/June_10%2C_1983.pdf, retrieved 2020-01-06
- ↑ "Los Alamos instruments capturing the sun" (in en). http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2001-12/lanl-lai120401.php.
- ↑ "Jane Elizabeth Nordholt Inventions, Patents and Patent Applications - Justia Patents Search". https://patents.justia.com/inventor/jane-elizabeth-nordholt.
- ↑ "R&D 100 Award Winners Archive" (in en-US). https://www.rdworldonline.com/rd-100-archive/.
- ↑ Nordholt, Jane (2002). "A New Face for Cryptography". Los Alamos Science 27. https://fas.org/sgp/othergov/doe/lanl/pubs/00783355.pdf.
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