Andrew Sunyar
Andrew William Sunyar (* 1920 in Henderson , Michigan , † May 22, 1986 in Port Jefferson , New York ) was an American physicist .
Sunyar received an AB from Albion College in 1942 and a Ph.D. in Physics in 1949 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Dissertation Resonance absorption of slow neutrons in “even-even” nuclei. Dissertation, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1949). In between he was an officer in the US Navy in World War II .
From 1949 until his death, he worked at the Brookhaven National Laboratory . In the Goldhaber experiment (1956 to 1958, together with Maurice Goldhaber and Lee Grodzins ) the helicity of the neutrinos was determined - they are left-handed, which confirmed the VA theory of the weak interaction (and again the parity violation ). In 1958 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society .
literature
- Andrew Sunyar this . In: Brookhaven Bulletin . Volume 40, No. 22, May 30, 1986 (with picture), digital version (PDF; 901 kB)
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| SURNAME | Sunyar, Andrew |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sunyar, Andrew William (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Henderson , Michigan |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 22, 1986 |
| Place of death | Port Jefferson , New York |