Eugene Commins
Eugene David Commins (born July 1, 1932 in New York - † September 26, 2015 ) was an American physicist.
Life
Commins studied physics and mathematics at Swarthmore College (Bachelor 1953) and received his PhD in 1958 from Columbia University . He was then an instructor and from 1960 assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley , where he became a professor in 1969. Since 2005 he has been Professor Emeritus there. From 1972 to 1974 he headed the physics faculty there. In 1963 and 1979 he received the University's Distinguished Teaching Award.
In 1987 he became a member of the National Academy of Sciences and also of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a Fellow of the American Physical Society . In 2010 he received the first JD Jackson Excellence in Graduate Education Award from the American Association of Physics Teachers. In 2005 he received the Oersted Medal . In 1962 he became a Sloan Research Fellow .
Commins dealt with atomic and molecular physics and optics and the weak interaction . After more than ten years of work, his group succeeded in specifying a very low upper limit for the electrical dipole moment of the electron. The existence of such a dipole moment would indicate a violation of the P and T symmetry (P = parity, T = time reversal) and to extensions of the standard model of elementary particles (for example Technicolor theories or supersymmetric theories ).
Steven Chu is one of his students .
Fonts
- Electric dipole moment of leptons , in: Bederson, Walther (Ed.), Advances in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Vol. 40 1999, pp. 1-56
- Commins, Philip Bucksbaum: Weak interactions of leptons and quarks , Cambridge University Press 1983
- Weak interactions , McGraw Hill 1973
literature
- Budker, Bucksbaum, Stuart Freedman: Art and symmetry in experimental physics: festschrift for Eugene D. Commins (Berkeley, May 2001), American Institute of Physics 2001
Web links
- Eugene D. Commins. Biography. In: Physics History Network. AIP
- Obituary: Remembering Professor Emeritus Eugene D. Commins. Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley, September 26, 2015.
- What Good Teachers Say About Teaching: Eugene D. Commins. Archived from the original on June 9, 2007 .
- Former homepage in Berkeley. Archived from the original on June 16, 2010 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Commins, Regan, Ch.Schmidt, DeMille New limit on the electron electric dipole moment , Phys. Rev.Lett., Vol. 88, 2002, p. 071805. According to the authors, the upper limit for the amount of the dipole moment is ( where e is the electron charge)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Commins, Eugene |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Commins, Eugene D .; Commins, Eugene David |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 1, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 26, 2015 |