Honors

For the observation of short-baseline reactor electron-antineutrino disappearance, providing the first determination of the neutrino mixing angle Θ13.

Heeger, who does field-leading research in the study of neutrinos and neutrino mass, was recently appointed the Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics.

The Heeger Group is part of three innovative experiments that recently won the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.