Don Lincoln

Don Lincoln (born 1964 in New York City) is an American particle physicist and science communicator. He earned a PhD from Rice University in 1994 and is a senior scientist at Fermilab, where he took part in the discoveries of the top quark and the Higgs boson. He writes books and articles on physics for a general audience, including for CNN, NOVA and Big Think, and he has produced a series of YouTube videos, made TED videos and worked with the Great Courses company. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2016), and he received the Dwight Nicholson Medal for Outreach in 2024.