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Los Alamos Public Library will host Jack Shlachter for a talk on Jewish American Nobel Prize Winners in Physics on Wednesday, May 1, 2024, from 6:30 to 7:30pm at the Mesa Public Library.

As part of the library’s honoring of Jewish American Heritage Month in May, Shlachter’s talkwill explore the outsized history of Jewish Nobel Laureates of the Physics prize. With far too many physicists to describe in detail, the list of Jewish Prize Winners includes names such as Richard Feynman, Fred Reines, Hans Bethe, Robert Hofstadter, Eugene Wigner, and A. A. Michelson. Of the famous names, Shlachter will discuss the particular history of those who have either been born in this country or come to adopt her as their home.

Shlachter is a physicist who worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory for more than 30 years. He led both the Physics Division and Theoretical Division at LANL before moving on to Brookhaven National Laboratory, the Atomic Energy Agency and the Comprehensive Nuclear- Test-Ban Treaty Organization. In parallel, Jack is an ordained rabbi who led the Jewish congregation in Los Alamos for many years, was the rabbi in Center Moriches, NY, during his years at Brookhaven, and now serves as rabbi of HaMakom, a congregation in Santa Fe, NM as well as the Los Alamos Jewish Center. He has also provided itinerant rabbinic support to far- flung Jewish communities including those in Vienna, Austria, Beijing, China, and Warsaw, Poland.

This event is free and open to the public. For information about the event or for more information about the library, please visit LosAlamosLibrary.org.