Don Lincoln

Don Lincoln is an American physicist, author, host of the YouTube channel Fermilab, and science communicator. He conducts research in particle physics at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, and was an adjunct professor of physics at the University of Notre Dame, although he is no longer affiliated with the university. He received a Ph.D. in experimental particle physics from Rice University in 1994. In 1995, he was a co-discoverer of the top quark. He has co-authored hundreds of research papers, and more recently, was a member of the team that discovered the Higgs boson in 2012.

Across 1 conversation, Don Lincoln ranges across dark matter, dark energy, grand unified theory. The Higgs boson was the last unvalidated piece of the standard model, discovered in 2012 at CERN. Dark energy is a repulsive force causing the accelerated expansion of the universe, contradicting earlier predictions.

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