Education
Whitman College; University of Washington.
Whitman College; University of Washington.
He is a Presidential Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of Texas at Arlington now. He has worked at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory since 1973. He has been called "the most distinguished developer of particle detection instruments in the country".
Nygren earned his Bachelor of Arts degree at Whitman College in 1960, and his Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Washington in 1967.
He is a fellow of the American Physical Society. 2015 - Aldo Menzione award from Frontier Detectors for Frontier Physics Society awarded at 13th Pisa Meeting on Advanced Detectors.
2015 - Aldo Menzione award from Frontier Detectors for Frontier Physics Society awarded at 13th Pisa Meeting on Advanced Detectors 2013 - Lifetime Achievement Award from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 2008 - Honorary doctorate, Stockholm University 2000 - Member, National Academy of Sciences 1998 - W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics 1995 - Distinguished Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 1985 - Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award.
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National Academy of Sciences.
