Michelle Shinn, Ph.D.

20192019Distinguished AlumniB.S. Physics '78, M.S. Physics '80, Ph.D. Physics '83

Dr. Michelle Shinn was born and raised in Oklahoma and earned her bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate degrees at OSU. Shinn joined Lawrence Livermore National in early 1984, working in the laser division until 1990. While there, she and her small team built a laser using radioactive trivalent promethium, one of the few times a radioactive …