Helen Edwards
Helen Thom Edwards (born May 27, 1936 in Detroit ; † June 21, 2016 ) was an American physicist who worked on particle accelerators .
Edwards studied physics at Cornell University , where she got her bachelor's degree in 1957 and her master's degree in 1963 and her doctorate in 1966. She then did research at Cornell University (under Robert R. Wilson and Boyce McDaniel ) until she switched to Fermilab in 1970 , where she stayed for the rest of her career.
At Cornell University she built the 10 GeV synchrotron under Wilson. Wilson also brought her to the Fermilab when he became director there. She built the booster synchrotron there in the early 1970s . With Alvin Tollestrup and others, she built the system of superconducting magnets for the Tevatron, the first technical use of superconductivity on a large scale. Later, at Björn Wiik's invitation, she worked on superconductor technologies for the TESLA accelerator at DESY, which was then not implemented .
Edwards was also part of the initial leadership team for the Superconducting Super Collider for two years through 1991 .
On September 30, 2011, she had the honor of turning off the Tevatron .
In 1988 she was a MacArthur Fellow . In 1986 she received the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Prize and in 2003 the Robert R. Wilson Prize . In 1989 she received the National Medal of Technology. She was a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of the American Physical Society .
literature
- Andrew Sessler, Edmund Wilson: Engines of Discovery . World Scientific, 2007
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Edwards, Helen |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Edwards, Helen Thom (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 27, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Detroit |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 21, 2016 |