Claude Lyneis

Claude Lyneis (born April 17, 1943 in Santa Monica ) is an American physicist who deals with accelerator physics and electron cyclotron resonance ion sources (ECR ion sources).

Lyneis graduated from the University of Washington with a bachelor's degree in physics in 1965 and received her PhD from Stanford University in 1974 with Alan Schwettman . In 1973/74 he was at the Institute for Experimental Nuclear Physics at the Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center and then again at Stanford University in the high energy physics laboratory, where he worked on the Superconducting Accelerator SCA. From 1981 he was a scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as program director on the 88- inch cyclotron . In addition, he led the development of ECR ​​ion sources for heavy ion accelerators. From 1989 he was senior physicist at the laboratory. From 2008 to 2011 he was deputy director for nuclear physics at the laboratory and since 2009 he has been group leader for ECR sources for accelerators. He is working on superconducting ECR sources for use in the planned Rare Isotope Accelerator.

ECR ion sources developed by him and his group were used at the heavy ion accelerators of the Argonne National Laboratory , the University of Jyväskylä in Finland and the Michigan State University .

In 2001 he received the Tom W. Bonner Prize for Nuclear Physics with Richard Geller . He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (1999).

Web links

• Claude Lyneis. In: Physics History Network. AIP(English). 
• 2001 Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics Recipient Claude Lyneis. APS, 2001(English).