Eric G. Adelberger

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Eric George Adelberger (born June 26, 1938 in Bryn Mawr , Pennsylvania ) is an American experimental nuclear physicist and gravitational physicist .

Adelberger studied physics at Caltech with a bachelor's degree in 1960 and a doctorate in 1967. 1968/1969 he was at Stanford University and from 1969 assistant professor at Princeton University . From 1971 he was assistant professor and from 1975 professor at the University of Washington in Seattle . In 1972 he received a research grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ( Sloan Research Fellowship ).

He deals with experimental nuclear physics (fundamental symmetries in nuclei, nuclear structure) and experimental gravitational physics.

In the Eötwash Group at the University of Washington, he is investigating the validity of Newton's law of gravity down to small distances, less than the previously tested minimum distances in the mm range. The group was able to rule out extra dimensions larger than 44 micrometers in 2007 and hopes to be able to continue the experiment down to the range of a few micrometers. They also tested the equivalence principle with improved torsion balances for different substances and distances from 1 m to very large distances (center of the Milky Way). You set a new record for precision (Eötvös parameters ).

In 1985 he received the Tom W. Bonner Prize for Nuclear Physics . In 1982 he received the Humboldt Senior Scientist Award . He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1998), and the American Physical Society (1978). In 1987 he headed the nuclear physics division of the American Physical Society.

From 1978 to 1981 he was Associate Editor of Physical Review Letters . He has been married since 1961 and has two children.

Fonts

  • Eric G. Adelberger, Blayne Heckel, Ann E. Nelson: Tests of the gravitational inverse square law. In: Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science , Volume 53, 2003, p. 77.
  • Eric G. Adelberger, Jens Gundlach, Blayne Heckel, Seth Hoedl, Stephan Schlamminger: Torsion balance experiments: a low energy frontier of particle physics. In: Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics , Volume 62, 2009, p. 102.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ^ Daniel J. Kapner et al: Tests of the gravitational inverse square law below the dark energy length scale. In: Physical Review Letters , Volume 98, 2007, p. 021101
  3. ↑ Minkel String theory's Extra Dimensions must be less than half the width of a human hair , Scientific American, January 16, 2007
  4. ↑ Stephan Schlamminger and others: Test of the Equivalence Principle using a rotating torsion balance. In: Physical Review Letters , Volume 100, 2008, p. 041101.
personal data
SURNAME Adelberger, Eric G.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adelberger, Eric George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Bryn Mawr , Pennsylvania