Edward H. Thorndike

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Edward Harmon Thorndike (born August 2, 1934 in Pasadena, CA ) is an American experimental particle physicist .

Thorndike graduated from Wesleyan University with a Bachelor Accounts in 1956, acquired in 1957 his Master Accounts at Stanford University and in 1960 at Harvard University , he, at the under Richard Wilson on nucleon -Nukleon- scattering in cyclotron researched -Laboratory, Ph.D. . In 1961 he became Assistant Professor , 1965 Associate Professor and 1972 Professor at the University of Rochester .

1961 to 1967 he carried out experiments on nucleon-nucleon scattering at the 130 inch cyclotron in Rochester (of which he was director from 1965 to 1969) and from 1968 to 1978 he investigated the photoproduction and decay of vector mesons at the 10 GeV electron synchrotron at Cornell University . From 1979, he was there a leader at the CLEO collaboration (which the CLEO detector at the Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR) for electron - positron - collision experiments used) involved. From 1981 to 1984, 1990 to 1992 and from 2005 was spokesman for the collaboration and from 1997 to 1999 together with George Brandenburg its co-speaker. There he deals with the physics of the bottom quark and especially its rare decays and the determination of the parameters of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix (CKM). In particular, in 1994 the first measurement of the breakdown of the bottom into the strange quark in an FCNC process ( flavor changing neutral current ) was achieved there. The observation provided restrictions on parameters of models beyond the standard model .

He also wrote a book on energy and environmental issues. In 1987/88 he was a Guggenheim Fellow . In 1999 he received the Panofsky Prize . He is a fellow of the American Physical Society .

Fonts

  • Edward H. Thorndike: Energy and Environment . A Primer for Scientists and Engineers. Addison-Wesley, 1976, ISBN 978-0-201-07497-0 (English).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ^ Entry in the California Birth Index database. Retrieved February 9, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Harvard Physics PhD Theses, 1954-1970. Retrieved February 9, 2018 (thesis title: "Proton-Proton Triple Scattering: Depolarization at 98Mev, and Rotation at 140 Mev").
  4. ↑ Alam et al. a. First Measurement of the Rate for the Inclusive Radiative Penguin Decay b → sγ . Physical Review Letters 74, 1995, 2885-2889, abstract
personal data
SURNAME Thorndike, Edward H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thorndike, Edward Harmon (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Pasadena, California