Noted UTA physicist recognized with first American Physical Society instrumentation award

ARLINGTON, Texas – UTA Physicist David Nygren, a member of the National Academy of Science, has been honored as one of two recipients of a new American Physical Society’s instrumentation award for his widespread and lifelong contributions in the field of particle physics. Nygren is the Presidential Distinguished Professor of Physics in The University of Texas at Arlington’s College of Science. He developed the Time Projection Chamber in 1974 to enable accurate and complete capture of results when high-energy particles collide. Such collisions can lead to the production of hundreds or