JILA Founder and Physics Professor Adjoint, Lewis M. Branscomb passed away on May 31, 2023. Learn more about Branscomb's career and his impact establishing JILA in partnership with NIST and CU Boulder. Lewis Branscomb Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Image of atomic beam device with a peanut for scale. Rb vapor in the source cavity feeds a buried microcapillary array and forms an atomic beam (indicated by a red-to-blue arrow) in the drift cavity. Credit: Nature Communications (2023) CU Physics graduate students Gabriela D. Martinez and Alexander Staron helped...