Ernest M. Henley

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Ernest Mark Henley (born June 10, 1924 in Germany - † March 27, 2017 ) was an American theoretical physicist who dealt with nuclear physics, but also with particle physics and symmetries.

Career

Henley received his bachelor's degree (BEE) in electrical engineering from the City College of New York in 1944 . He was then from 1946 to 1948 as an electrical engineer at the Airborne Instruments Laboratory. From 1948 to 1951 he conducted research at Stanford University (at the Microwave Laboratory and Radiation Laboratory). In 1952 he received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley . From 1952 to 1954 he was a Jewett Fellow and Lecturer at Columbia University . From 1954 he was an assistant professor at the University of Washington , where he became a professor in 1961. In 1971/72 he chaired the university senate. From 1979 to 1987 he was Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences there and in 1990/91 director of the Institute for Theoretical Nuclear Physics. Since 1995 he has been Professor Emeritus there.

In 1977 he was an exchange scholar in the Soviet Union and in 1983 as a Distinguished Scholar in the People's Republic of China. From 1962 he was an advisor to the Los Alamos National Laboratory . In 1952, 1954 and 1957 he was a visiting scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory . From 1986 to 1989 he chaired the Nuclear Science Advisory Committee of the National Science Foundation and the US Department of Energy.

He did research on symmetries in nuclear and particle physics (and also wrote an introductory textbook dealing with nuclear and particle physics together with consideration of experimental aspects and a section on symmetries), constraints of symmetries on theories and models, use of symmetries in the Investigation of the nuclear structure, and later quark-gluon degrees of freedom and quantum chromodynamics in nuclear physics, including the effect of the environment (in nuclei or free) on hadrons, as manifested in the EMC effect. Henley and Lawrence Wilets (1927-2010) in 1976 calculated the effects of parity violation for measurements in atomic physics.

He had been a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1979 and headed its physics section from 1998. In 1992 he was president of the American Physical Society (APS), of which he was a fellow, of which he headed the nuclear physics department in 1979/80 and of which he received the Tom W. Bonner Prize for nuclear physics in 1989. He was also elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1995 and was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science , of which he chaired the physics section in 1989. In 1967/68 he was a Guggenheim Fellow and 1976/77 NATO Senior Fellow. In 1984 he received a Humboldt Research Award and in 1989 the Townsend Harris Medal of the City College of New York . In 2005 he was awarded the Dr. rer. nat. honoris causa from the Justus Liebig University in Giessen.

He had been married to Elaine Dimitman since 1948 and had a son and a daughter.

He was editor of the International Journal of Modern Physics E from 1992 and of Comments on Nuclear and Particle Physics from 1980 to 1984.

Fonts

  • with Walter Thirring : Elementary Quantum Field Theory, BI 1975 (English original: Elementary Quantum Field Theory, McGraw Hill 1962)
  • with Hans Frauenfelder : Nuclear and Particle Physics, Benjamin 1975
  • with Hans Frauenfelder: Subatomic Physics, Prentice-Hall 1974, 2nd edition 1991, German: Particles and nuclei: Subatomare Physik, Oldenbourg 1979, 4th edition 1999
  • with Alejandro Garcia: Subatomic Physics , World Scientific 2007
  • Editor with Wick C. Haxton : Symmetries and Fundamental Interactions in Nuclei, World Scientific 1995
  • with J. Gregory Dash: Physics around us: how and why things work, World Scientific 2012
  • Editor with Stephen D. Ellis: 100 years of subatomic physics, World Scientific 2013 (including a chapter on the history of nuclear physics by Henley, Garcia)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ↑ James Urton: Remembering Ernest Henley, physicist and UW College of Arts & Sciences dean emeritus. University of Washington , April 17, 2017, accessed May 1, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Henley, Wilets, parity non conservation in Bi and Tl atom , Physical Review A, vol 14, 1976, page 1411
personal data
SURNAME Henley, Ernest M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Henley, Ernest Mark (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Germany
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 2017