BELL BUCKLE, Tenn. - In honor of The Webb School's 150th Anniversary, the Webb 150/Follin Series will continue hosting special guests throughout the 2019-2020 school year. Dr. Larry Price, physicist who retired from Columbia University and Argonne National Laboratory, will speak March 16 at 9:40 a.m. in the Follin Chapel on campus. His presentation is entitled "Standing on the Shoulders of a Giant: From Sawney Webb to 21st Century Scientific Discovery" and is free and open to the public.

Dr. Larry Price is a great-grandson of The Webb School founder Sawney Webb and is a graduate of the Webb School of California. Dr. Price is a physicist specializing in elementary particles. He holds degrees in physics from Pomona College (BA) and Harvard University (MA and PhD). He is retired from a career at Columbia University and then Argonne National Laboratory, where he held the rank of senior physicist and was Director of the High Energy Physics Division.

Dr. Price's research has included experiments measuring the shape of neutrons and protons; determining properties of quarks; finding evidence for neutrino oscillations and neutrino mass; and the large international effort culminating in the discovery of the Higgs Boson, while measuring many other aspects of particle physics at super high energies. Dr. Price is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He has served on multiple national and international committees for particle physics and related fields, including the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel, the U.S. Federal Advisory Committee for elementary particle physics.