J. David Bowman

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James David Bowman (born August 24, 1939 in White Plains , New York , United States ) is an American experimental nuclear and particle physicist.

Bowman graduated from the California Institute of Technology with a bachelor's degree in 1961 and received a PhD in physics in 1967. As a post-doctoral student he was at the University of Bonn from 1968 to 1970 , from 1970 at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the nuclear chemistry department and from 1973 at the Los Alamos National Laboratory as a physicist at the LAMPF meson factory and from 1993 in the physics department of the laboratory. Since 2002 he is at Oak Ridge National Laboratory , whose spallation neutron source SNS and NAB spectrometers he uses for the precision investigation of the neutron beta decay and its parameters as part of the NAB collaboration.

Bowman deals with nuclear physics at medium energies, pion-core interaction, muon decay and symmetry principles. He dealt with the exact measurement of the lifetime of the neutron (in the UCN collaboration in Los Alamos, UCN for Ultracold Neutrons) with ultra-cold neutrons in magnetic traps. He also looked for signs of T-violation and thus physics beyond the standard model in neutron-nucleus reactions.

In 2000, he was also vice president of finance for East Tennessee State University.

In 2002 he received the Tom W. Bonner Prize for Nuclear Physics . He is a fellow of the American Physical Society .

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  1. ↑ Life and career data American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ↑ Fundamental Neutron Science, Oak Ridge
  3. ↑ Bowman et al. a. NAB: measurement principles, apparatus and uncertainties , Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A, Volume 611, 2009, p. 211, pdf
personal data
SURNAME Bowman, J. David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bowman, James David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH White Plains (New York)