Ernest K. Warburton
Ernest K. Warburton (born April 26, 1928 in Worcester (Massachusetts) , † May 9, 1994 in Port Jefferson , New York ) was an American experimental nuclear physicist.
Warburton studied at Miami University (Bachelor of Arts 1949), at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Bachelor of Science 1951) and received his doctorate in physics from the University of Pittsburgh in 1957 . He was then an instructor and later an assistant professor at Princeton University and from 1961 at Brookhaven National Laboratory , from 1968 as a senior physicist.
In 1962 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . In 1963/64 and 1968/69 he was a Fellow of the National Science Foundation at Oxford University .
In 1994 he received the Tom W. Bonner Prize for Nuclear Physics . In the laudation, his fundamental contributions to the understanding of the structure of light nuclei through the use and development of experimental techniques in nuclear spectroscopy combined with theoretical analysis were highlighted. Specifically were mentioned:
- Gamma-gamma directional correlation measurements for information on the multipole character in in-beam gamma ray spectroscopy,
- his pioneering work in measuring the lifetimes of core states with Doppler shift methods,
- his development of methods for deriving multipolarity from the pair correlation in internal conversion and
- his experimental and theoretical studies on beta decays forbidden in 1st order, which showed strong indications of meson contributions to the weak axial current.
Fonts
- with Fay Ajzenberg-Selove Nuclear spectroscopy , Physics Today, Volume 36, November 1983
Web links
- Biography at the APS
Individual evidence
- ↑ For pioneering contributions to our understanding of the structure of light nuclei via the development and exploitation of experimental techniques in nuclear spectroscopy combined with theoretical analysis . Laudation in APS Newsletter 1994, pdf
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Warburton, Ernest K. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 26, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Worcester , Massachusetts , United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 9, 1994 |
| Place of death | Port Jefferson , New York , United States |