Professor Duncan Brown Quoted In Quanta Magazine

As many eyes were trained on the solar eclipse, another astronomical event took place, as Quanta Magazine detailed with comments from Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences Physics Professor, and LIGO Scientific Collaboration member, Duncan Brown.

“If you get all these different pieces then you can put together the full story,” said Brown, talking of the combination of “r-process” elements, which include uranium, platinum and gold, that together may be able to help physicists with understanding the behavior of matter at nucleic densities.