Arthur Poskanzer
Arthur M. Poskanzer (born June 28, 1931 in New York City ) is an American experimental physicist who deals with heavy ion physics and with the investigation of unstable nuclei far from equilibrium.
Poskanzer studied physics and chemistry at Harvard University (Bachelor 1953) and Columbia University (Master's degree 1954). In 1957 he received his PhD in physical chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . From 1957 he was a scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory (as a chemist) and from 1966 at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBL). From 1995 he was Distinguished Senior Scientist there and in 2001 he retired.
As scientific director of Bevalac in Berkeley (1978/79), he and the German scientists Hans Gutbrod and Reinhard Stock, who also worked there, did pioneering work in the development of relativistic heavy ion accelerators for the investigation of high-density nuclear matter. Later he continued the work (with other former members of the LBL group such as Stock) at CERN (among other things he was deputy spokesman for NA 49 until 1989). From 1980 to 1990 he was co-head of the Plastic Ball Group, a collaboration between LBL and GSI . With the group, the collective flow of nuclear matter was discovered. From 1990 to 1995 he directed the Relativistic Nuclear Collision Program at the Lawrence Berkeley Lab and drove the LBL groups to participate in the Star Experiment of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) in Brookhaven National Laboratory . There he and others discovered the phenomenon of elliptic flow as an indication of the existence of a quark-gluon plasma .
In 1970/71 he was a Guggenheim Fellow at the University of Paris-South in Orsay . He was at CERN several times (1979/80, 1986/87 and 1995/96).
In 2008 he received the Tom W. Bonner Prize for Nuclear Physics . He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science . He received the American Chemical Society's Nuclear Chemistry Prize and the US Senior Scientist Alexander von Humboldt Award.
He has been married since 1954 and has three children.
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| SURNAME | Poskanzer, Arthur |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Poskanzer, Arthur M. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 28, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |