Biography:Mary Bishai
Mary R. M. Bishai | |
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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[1] |
Website | {{{1}}} |
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.[2] She grew up in Nigeria and Egypt and is of Egyptian descent.[2][3] 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.[2] She was an undergraduate student in physics at University of Colorado Boulder, then moved to Purdue University for graduate studies,[1] where she worked on the CLEO experiment at Cornell University.[2] She worked on parity violations in the decays of charm-strange baryons.[2] She was awarded the Purdue University George W. Tautfest Award, an award that honors outstanding physics graduate students.[4]
Research and career
In 1998, Bishai joined Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory as a research associate, where she was involved with Tevatron.[5] She worked on quantum chromodynamics.[6]
Bishai joined Brookhaven National Laboratory in 2004. She was hired to work on the MINOS experiment, a long baseline neutrino project.[5][7] Her recommendations enabled the CD-0 decision from the United States Department of Energy that enabled the Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment.[citation needed] She was part of the team who measured the J/psi meson cross sections at the Collider Detector at Fermilab.[8]
Selected publications
Awards and honors
In 2015, Bishai was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society "For her contributions to flavour physics,".[6]
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.[9] DUNE will send the most intense neutrino beam in the world from Fermilab to the Sanford Underground Research Facility.[7]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 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.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 "Women @ Energy: Mary Bishai" (in en). Brookhaven National Laboratory. https://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=25272.
- ↑ "Mary Bishai | Faces of DUNE" (in en-US). https://www.dunescience.org/facesofdune/mary-bishai/.
- ↑ University, Purdue Physics and Astronomy, Purdue. "Awards to the Graduate Students: Department of Physics and Astronomy: Purdue University" (in en). https://www.physics.purdue.edu/about/prizes_awards/all_grad.html.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "BNL | Staff | Mary Bishai, Physics Department" (in en). https://www.bnl.gov/staff/mbishai.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Four Scientists With Major Contributions to Research at Brookhaven Lab Named American Physical Society Fellows" (in en). http://www.nanotech-now.com/news.cgi?story_id=51107.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Brookhaven Lab Physicist Mary Bishai Elected DUNE Co-Spokesperson" (in en). https://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=121011.
- ↑ 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. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.71.032001. ISSN 1550-7998.
- ↑ "Brookhaven Lab Physicist Mary Bishai Elected DUNE Co-Spokesperson" (in en). https://www.newswise.com/doescience/brookhaven-lab-physicist-mary-bishai-elected-dune-co-spokesperson.
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