Category: News

Professor Hans Quack was presented with the 2008 Mendelssohn Award at the International Cryogenic Engineering Conference in Seoul, Korea.

Symmetry Breaking reports that Mike Lazardis donated $50 million to the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, which will allow the institute to continue expansion. The institute was founded in 2000, thanks to $100 million dollars of Lazardis’s personal funds.

Superconductor Science and Technology has announced that content from the journal will be available online free for anyone to access. This resource includes the latest developments in the field of superconductivity.

A $5 million anonymous donation was made to the University of Chicago, which will be used to end rolling furloughs at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, according to the Daily Herald.

According to Business Wire, ExxonMobil announced that it plans to build a commercial demonstration plant near LaBarge, Wyoming, that could make carbon capture and storage more affordable, as well as greatly reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Reflect Scientific recently announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Cryometrix, received an order for a T-150 Ultra-Low Temperature liquid nitrogen freezer from a world-leading veterinary health company.

An interview with Nans Kunz, Senior Engineer at NASA Ames Research Center, and former SOFIA Chief Engineer. The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) project is a telescope carried in a 747 aircraft up above the atmosphere. Kunz explains how cryogenics made the project more cost-effective and efficient.

Fermilab Director Pier Oddone as been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a prestigious honorary society and independent policy research center. Oddone joins Fermilab scientists Bill Bardeen and Helen Edwards in receiving this honor.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory became the world’s most powerful source of pulsed neutrons when its beam reached 310 kilowatts in late January.

Fermilab Today reported that, “A new posse in town has its sights set on Fermilab’s feathery fowl.

A US postage stamp commemorating the late UI physics Professor John Bardeen, inventor of the transistor and a two-time Nobel Prize Winner, was officially issued at Postage Stamp Mega-Event in New York’s Madison Square Garden.

The “Ganni Cycle”, invented by engineers at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, has been saving Brookhaven National Laboratory approximately $50,000 a week in electric costs for the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC).

Two French inventors have developed and patented an air separation cryogenic liquid sampling method.

Actor Thomas Glenn and Director Peter Sellars recently made a visit to Fermilab to learn more about Robert Wilson, Fermilab’s founding director.

Essex Cryogenics of Missouri has been awarded a $172,558 contract by the US Navy for the maintenance, repair and rebuilding of equipment.

To honor 50 years in the business, FIBA Technologies, Inc. was featured in a 15-page magazine insert in the Worcester MA Business Journal.

A division of Taylor-Wharton International has announced that sales of its high pressure cylinder operations have surpassed $15 million. TW Cylinders LLC produces ISO/EN specification cylinders in Huntsville AL and Harrisburg PA.

GenCorp Inc. company Aerojet has been awarded a contract from NASA Glenn Research Center for the development of a 5,500lbf Liquid Oxygen-Liquid Methane engine. Liquid-Oxygen Liquid-Methane propulsion systems have been identified as a promising option for future space vehicles.

NASA awarded a contract extension to Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, a United Technologies Corp. company. The extension will allow the company to continue development of the Common Extensible Cryogenic Engine (CECE), in an effort to support future lunar landing development.

Aqua Cure Ltd., Buffalo NY, has been awarded a $131,430 contract by the US Air Force for cryogenic vaporizers.