Doctor Ronan McNulty
Nationality: Ireland
Year: 1990
Subject Area: Science and Engineering
The Wingate Scholarship allowed me spend time at CERN, the European Centre for Particle Physics, where I measured the lifetime of the tau lepton (one of the fundamental particles of nature that looks like an ultra-heavy electron) to be one third of a millionth of a millionth of a second. Since then I have worked at Liverpool University, at CERN, at the Fermilab accelerator near Chicago, and now I am a lecturer in the School of Physics at University College Dublin, Ireland. My current research interests can be browsed from my website
I'd also like to comment that the Wingate Scholarship helped me at a critical period in my research career. Without this injection of funding that allowed me to spend time at the particle accelerator, I doubt my work would have had the impact it did, allowing me achieve subsequent postdoctoral and lecturing positions