John H. Nuckolls Receives Enrico Fermi Presidential Award

The Biden-Harris Administration has recognized former LLNL Director John Nuckolls with the Enrico Fermi Award for "seminal leadership in inertial confinement fusion and high energy density physics."

Three Lab Scientists Named 2024 APS Fellows

LLNL scientists Daniel Casey, Daniel Clark, and Raymond Smith have been named 2024 American Physical Society (APS) Fellows.

Ignition Continues to Spark Interest in NIF&PS Intern Program

The NIF&PS Summer Scholar Program enjoyed another record year in 2024—and, once again, the fusion ignition milestone at LLNL in 2022 was cited as a key reason for the continuing surge of interest.

Livermore Lab Foundation Selects LLNL Fusion Fellows for 2024

The Livermore Lab Foundation this summer honored two LLNL student interns as 2024 Fusion Fellows.

LLNL’s Kritcher Receives Excellence in Fusion Engineering Award

Annie Kritcher, design physicist and lead for integrated modeling in the Inertial Confinement Fusion program at LLNL, has been honored with the 2024 David J. Rose Excellence in Fusion Engineering Award by Fusion Power Associates.

LLNL Intern Applies Lessons Learned from Home, Family

Brianna Barbee is taking a childhood lesson from her mother to heart—and it figured into her summer internship at LLNL.

Lab Scientists Win Three R&D 100 Awards

LLNL scientists and engineers, including a team from the NIF & Photon Science Diffractive Optics Group, have earned three awards among the top 100 inventions worldwide.

SPIE Names LLNL’s Zhi Liao a Senior Member

LLNL's Zhi Liao, the NIF&PS workforce manager, has been elected as a senior member of SPIE, the international society for optics and phonics.

Two LLNL Researchers Named to Optica’s 2024 Class of Senior Members

Paul Armstrong, a NIF&PS engineer, and Brent Stuart, operations manager for the Jupiter Laser Facility, have been named senior members of Optica.

Fusion Power Associates Honors LLNL’s Bruno Van Wonterghem

NIF Operations Manager Bruno Van Wonterghem is being honored for "decades of tenacious dedication to scientific and operational excellence" at LLNL.

Two LLNL Physicists Honored for International Collaboration

LLNL physicists Hye-Sook Park and George Swadling, Anna Grassi of France’s Sorbonne University, and former Lawrence Fellow Frederico Fiuza of Portugal’s Técnico Lisboa, received the 2024 Lev D. Landau and Lyman Spitzer Jr. Award for Outstanding Contributions to Plasma Physics.

LLNL Honors 23 as Distinguished Members of Technical Staff

Craig Siders and Vladimir Smalyuk from NIF&PS are among the 23 LLNL researchers named Distinguished Members of Technical Staff.

LLNL’s Annie Kritcher Honored with Liberty Science Center’s ‘Genius Award’

The Liberty Science Center of New Jersey presented LLNL physicist Annie Kritcher with its “Genius Award” for her work on the Lab team that achieved fusion ignition.

World’s Most Powerful Supercomputers List

Three new systems currently or soon-to-be sited at LLNL, including one already used to model ICF experiments at NIF, debuted on the latest Top500 list of most powerful supercomputers in the world.

LLNL’s Raspberry Simpson Named Kavli Fellow

Raspberry Simpson, a NIF&PS Directorate Lawrence Fellow, has been named a National Academy of Sciences Kavli Fellow.

Annie Kritcher: Tackling the Biggest Challenges

For LLNL physicist Annie Kritcher, the bigger the challenge, the better. Here’s how she became the principal designer on the LLNL team that achieved one of science’s biggest challenges—fusion ignition.

Lab employees recognized with Secretary of Energy’s Honor Awards

The Fusion Ignition Team and a team that helped tell the world the story of that historic LLNL accomplishment at NIF were among the Lab project teams to earn Department of Energy Secretary’s Honor Awards.

LLNL Laser Safety Officer Jamie King Named Laser Institute Fellow

Jamie King, LLNL and NIF and Photon Science certified laser safety officer, was named a fellow of the Laser Institute, the organization’s highest level of membership.

NIF’s Jeff Wisoff and Jean-Michel Di Nicola Elected Optica Fellows

Peter J.K. (Jeff) Wisoff, principal associate director of LLNL’s NIF and Photon Science (NIF&PS) Directorate, and Jean-Michel Di Nicola, co-program director for the NIF&PS Laser Science & Technology and Systems Engineering organization, have been selected as fellows of Optica (formerly OSA).

LLNL Experimental Physicist Awarded 2023 Fabre Prize

LLNL physicist Alex Zylstra has been awarded the 2023 Edouard Fabre Prize for his experimental leadership of the milestone “Hybrid-E” campaign that achieved fusion ignition at the National Ignition Facility (NIF).