Blow Cabrera
Blas Cabrera (born September 21, 1946 in Paris ) is an American physicist who deals with experimental elementary particle physics.
Cabrera studied at the University of Virginia (Bachelor 1968), where his father Nicolás Cabrera (1913–1989), a Spanish physicist who went into exile during the Franco regime, had been a professor since 1952 (from 1971 he was at the Autonomous University in Madrid). Cabrera received his PhD from Stanford University in 1975 . He stayed at Stanford University, where he became Assistant Professor in 1981, Associate Professor in 1984 and Professor in 1991. From 1996 to 1999 he was chairman of the physics faculty there.
Cabrera searched for magnetic monopoles for a long time and also reported an event on the night of February 14, 1982, which he interpreted as a magnetic monopole, which remained controversial. The research group from Cabrera received substantial financial support for an improved search, which has since been discontinued due to unsuccessfulness.
After that he dealt with the search for dark matter . He is co-speaker of the CDMS (Cryogenic Dark Matter Search) experiment on the search for WIMPs . The detector is in the Soudan Mine in northern Minnesota .
Cabrera is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2020 . For 2013 he was awarded the Panofsky Prize .
Web links
- Blow Cabrera. In: Physics History Network. American Institute of Physics
- Homepage in Stanford
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cabrera et al. a. First results from a superconducting detector for moving magnetic monopoles , Physical Review Letters, Vol. 48, 1982, p. 1378
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Cabrera, Blas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 21, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |