Howard Wieman
Howard Henry Wieman (* around 1946) is an American experimental nuclear physicist who specializes in detectors in high-energy heavy ion physics.
Wieman graduated from Oregon State University with a bachelor's degree in 1966 and received his doctorate in 1975 under Isaac Halpern at the University of Washington . As a post-doctoral student , he was at the University of Colorado and then at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , where he retired in 2011, but is still scientifically active there.
At the LNBL he was responsible for the design and installation of the low energy beam line at the heavy ion accelerator Bevalac and for the development of time projection chambers (TPC), especially the EOS Time Projection Chamber at Bevalac, of which he was co-director with Hans-Georg Knight was. At times he was also at the Society for Heavy Ion Research (GSI, Darmstadt). Wieman was also the designer (with the mechanical engineer Russell Wells) of the TPC for the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) in Brookhaven and he designed and constructed the vertex detector HFT PXL for the STAR experiment, which will be in operation from 2014 and D -Meson decays in heavy ion collisions. It uses monolithic CMOS pixel technology.
He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and received the Tom W. Bonner Prize for Nuclear Physics for 2015. In 1999 he received the JM Nitschke Technical Excellence Award from the LBNL.
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| SURNAME | Wieman, Howard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wieman, Howard H. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American experimental nuclear physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1946 |