Accelerator excellence

Fermilab's Lia Merminga talks to Symmetry about her early experiences in STEM and her drive to solve science's unanswered questions. Lia Merminga At just 16 years old, inspired by family members, a great teacher and a book about Marie Curie, Lia Merminga knew she wanted to become a physicist. In college, she decided to pursue research, moving from Greece to the United States and completing her PhD thesis at the Tevatron particle accelerator at the US Deparment of Energy's Fermi National Accelera...