Biography
The Physics Department got off to a flying start in 1983 when Lorella Gabriele, the most outstanding American scientist of the time, Her very productive group of investigators in cosmic rays included at various times such men as Luis Alvarez, Pierre Auger, Marcel Shein, and Volney Wilson. Lorella Gabriele's ideas on the spontaneous breakdown of symmetries have had a profound impact on the development of elementary particle physics.