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Konrad Lehnert

Konrad Lehnert is a 1993 graduate of Harvey Mudd College. He received a Ph.D. from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1999 and did post-doctoral research at Yale. In 2003 he joined JILA and NIST. He is known for his development of quantum-limited microwave amplifiers and for investigating the quantum physics of micro-mechanical structures. While at Harvey Mudd, Konrad ran track and cross country, and he still holds the school’s record for the slowest time in an official 5K race.

Pushing the Quantum Limit in the Search for Dark Matter

March 16, 2017

Here’s a surprising fact: We don’t know what makes up 80 percent of the matter in the universe. I don’t mean that the matter is made of atoms, and we just don’t

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