Bruce Winstein

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Bruce Darrell Winstein (born September 25, 1943 in Los Angeles , California - † February 28, 2011 ) was an American experimental physicist who dealt with elementary particle physics and cosmology .

Winstein graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with a bachelor's degree in 1965 and received his PhD from Caltech in 1970. From 1970 to 1972 he was at the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich and then at the Enrico Fermi Institute at the University of Chicago , where he became an assistant professor and professor in 1983. There he was Samuel K. Allison Distinguished Service Professor and Director of the Kavli Center for Cosmological Physics . From 1990 he was a permanent visiting scientist at Fermilab and 1985/86 visiting professor at SLAC .

In 1999, after 25 years of increasingly precise measurements in the KTEV experiment (for Kaons at the Tevatron ) at Fermilab, he and colleagues provided the final proof of direct CP violation (at the same time at CERN in the NA48 experiment and its predecessor NA31). He later turned to cosmology and led the Quiet experiment in the Chilean Atacama Desert to measure the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). Before moving to cosmology, he learned CMB physics from scratch on a sabbatical in Princeton in Suzanne Staggs' laboratory.

In 1983/84 he was Chairman of the Superconducting Super Collider Study Group in its initial phase .

In 2007 he received the Panofsky Prize with Heinrich Wahl and Italo Mannelli for proof of direct CP violation. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1995), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2007) and a Fellow of the American Physical Society . In 1999 he was a Guggenheim Fellow. In 1976 he gave the Arthur Holly Compton Lectures at the University of Chicago.

Winstein was a film buff and jazz lover and lectured on Michelangelo Antonioni at the university . He was married and had two children. He died of cancer.

Fonts

  • with Jonathan L. Rosner: Kaon Physics . University of Chicago Press 2001

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ^ Obituary at the University of Chicago
  3. ↑ KTEV
personal data
SURNAME Winstein, Bruce
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Winstein, Bruce Darrell
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 2011