Gordon Kane

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Gordon Leon Kane (born January 19, 1937 in Saint Paul , Minnesota ) is an American physicist who deals with theoretical particle physics and especially supersymmetry .

Gordon Kane (2007)

Life

Kane studied physics at the University of Minnesota ( Bachelor's degree in 1958) and at the University of Illinois , where he received his master's degree in 1961 and his doctorate in 1963. He was then at Johns Hopkins University and from 1965 Assistant Professor and since 1975 Professor of Physics at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor . There he was director of the Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics and Victor Weisskopf Distinguished University Professor . He was at CERN (1986), SLAC (1979) and the Institute for Advanced Study (2007) , among others .

In 2012 he received the Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize . In 1971/72 he was a Guggenheim Fellow at the Rutherford Laboratory and the University of Oxford. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society , the Institute of Physics, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science .

Kane published more than 200 papers in popular scientific fields on topics of theoretical particle physics and astro-particle physics, especially phenomenology of physics beyond the Standard Model, for example on the Large Hadron Collider , dark matter , supersymmetry, Higgs boson physics, string phenomenology.

In 1982 he was co-leader of the Snowmass meeting of particle physicists, where the idea for the Superconducting Super Collider was developed. He worked with Howard Haber on experimental predictions from the Minimal Supersymmetric Model, and they wrote a widely used review article about it in 1985.

He has been married since 1958 and has two children.

Fonts

  • Supersymmetry. Unveiling the ultimate limits of nature , Perseus Books 2000
  • The particle garden. Out universe as understood by particle physicists , Helix Books, Addison-Wesley 1994
  • Modern Elementary Particle Physics , Addison-Wesley 1988, 1993
  • Editor Perspectives on Higgs physics , 2 volumes, World Scientific 1998
  • Editor Perspectives on LHC physics , World Scientific 2008
  • Editor Perspectives on Supersymmetry , 2 volumes, World Scientific 1998, 2010
  • with John F. Gunion , Howard Haber , Sally Dawson The Higgs hunter guide , Addison-Wesley 1990, Westview Press 2000
  • Editor with Mikhail Shifman The supersymmetric world , World Scientific 2001

Some essays:

  • Mysteries of mass , Scientific American, July 2005
  • The dawn of physics beyond the standard model , Scientific American, June 2003
  • String theory and the real world , Physics Today, November 2010
  • with DJH Chung, LL Everett, SF King, J. Lykken, Lian-Tao Wang The soft supersymmetry-breaking Lagrangian: theory and applications ; Physics Reports, Volume 407, 2005, pp. 1-203

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ^ Haber, Kane The search for supersymmetry. Probing physics beyond the standard model , Physics Reports, Volume 117, 1985, pp. 75-263
personal data
SURNAME Kane, Gordon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kane, Gordon Leon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint Paul , Minnesota