Herman Winick
Herman Winick (* 1932 in New York City ) is an American physicist who works with particle accelerators .
Winick studied at Columbia University , where he made his bachelor's degree in physics in 1953 and received his doctorate in 1957. As a post-doctoral student he was at the University of Rochester until 1959 . He then went to the Cambridge Electron Accelerator at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology , where he became Deputy Director and Head of Operations. In 1973 he became Senior Research Associate and then Professor at Stanford University and SLAC , where he worked at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (where he designed the accelerator), 1973-1996 as Deputy Associate Director. In 1998 he retired, but remained active in research.
Winick is an internationally recognized leading scientist for synchrotron radiation sources , specifically wigglers and other undulators , free-electron lasers and high-intensity electron sources . He advised numerous laboratories around the world in this field and, for example, played an important role in the SESAME project, which he and others proposed in 1997. He created the designs (from 1992) for the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at SLAC , which went into operation in 2009.
He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science . In 1986 he received the Humboldt Senior Scientist Award. He received the US Department of Energy Distinguished Associate Award in 2000 and the US Particle Accelerator School Award in 1995.
Winick was active for the rights of dissidents in the Soviet Union (like Andrei Sakharov ) and in China (since the 1970s) for decades . In 2005 he received the Heinz Pagels Award for Human Rights from the New York Academy of Sciences . From 1989 to 1993 he was a member of the American Physical Society's Committee for the Assistance of Persecuted Scientists (CIFS) and was chairman in 1992. In 2010 he received the Andrei Sakharov Prize of the APS.
literature
- Andrew Sessler, Edmund Wilson Engines of Discovery , World Scientific 2007
- Winick (Editor) Synchrotron Radiation Sources- a Primer , World Scientific 1995
- Winick, S. Doniach (Editor) Synchrotron Radiation Research , Plenum Press, New York 1980
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Winick, Herman |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |