Andrew Sessler

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Andrew Sessler (third from left) during a radio interview (1945)

Andrew Marienhoff Sessler (born December 11, 1928 in New York City , † April 18, 2014 in Oakland ) was an American physicist who dealt in particular with the physics of particle accelerators , elementary particle and plasma physics.

Career

Sessler studied at Harvard University (Bachelor 1949) and Columbia University , where he made his master’s degree in 1951 and received his doctorate in 1953. As a post-doc he was at Cornell University and from 1954 as an assistant professor at Ohio State University . In 1961 he went to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , where he was director from 1973 to 1980. During this time he founded the environmental and geosciences departments there. In 2002 he retired there. Before that he was spokesman for the Neutrino Factory and the Muon Collider Collaboration.

From 1988 to 1991 he was head of the Federation of American Scientists and co-founder of a group (SOS) that supported Soviet dissidents such as Andrei Sakharov , for which he received the APS Dwight Nicholson Medal in 1995. In 1998 he was President of the American Physical Society (APS), of which he had been a Fellow since 1972. Since 1990 he has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences . In 1997 he received the Robert R. Wilson Prize of the APS, in 1970 the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Prize and in 2014 the Enrico Fermi Prize .

In addition to work on accelerator physics, he also published theoretical work on quantum theoretical statistical mechanics ( quantum statistics ), atomic physics and superfluidity.

Sessler was also active in the National Academy of Sciences study group on the long-term effects of the atomic bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and in an APS initiative group against landmines.

Fonts

  • Andrew Sessler, Edmund Wilson: Engines of Discovery. A Century of Particle Accelerators. World Scientific, Singapore et al. 2007, ISBN 978-981-270-070-4 .
  • Co-author of a Midwestern Universities Research Association (MURA) story ( Innovation Was Not Enough , World Scientific)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andrew Sessler 1928-2014. APS , April 21, 2014, accessed May 25, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Sessler, Andrew
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sessler, Andrew M .; Sessler, Andrew Marienhoff (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 2014
Place of death Oakland