Joel Primack
Joel Robert Primack (born July 14, 1945 in Santa Barbara ) is an American physicist and astrophysicist. He is a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz and a member of the Santa Cruz Institute of Particle Physics.
Life
Primack studied physics at Princeton University with a bachelor's degree in 1966 and received his doctorate in 1970 from Stanford University under Sidney Drell with the thesis The asymptotic behavior of the elastic form-factor in field theory . 1970 to 1973 he was a junior fellow at Harvard University . From 1983 he was a professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
In 1984 he was visiting professor at SLAC , in 2000 and 2001 visiting scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics in Munich, In 1988 Forchheimer visiting professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (and again in 1990), in 1992 visiting scientist at the Institute for Astrophysics in Paris and in 1978 the école normal supérieure .
He has been married to Nancy E. Abrams since 1977 and has one daughter.
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He conducted research in quantum field theory ( gauge field theories ), elementary particle physics, astroparticle physics and cosmology (dark matter, large-scale structures in the universe) and in particular on simulations of dark matter in cosmology on high-performance computers. He is the director of the University of California's High Performance AstroComputing Center (UC-HiPACC).
In 1982, together with Heinz Pagels , he proposed the lightest supersymmetric particle as a candidate for dark matter.
In 1984 he published the theory of cold dark matter (CDM) with Martin Rees , Sandra Moore Faber and George Blumenthal . Around the same time, other astronomers such as Carlos Frenk , George Efstathiou , and Simon White developed CDM scenarios.
In 2011 he presented the results of supercomputer simulations of the LCDM (Lambda Cold Dark Matter) scenario for the formation of structures in the universe, the Bolshoi Project ( Bolshoi for large in Russian).
He is also active in the popularization of science, including as a consultant to the IMAX film Cosmic Voyage (1996), as a writer of popular science articles and books, and in collaboration with planetariums.
Memberships, honors, political and other activities
He is a fellow of the American Physical Society (whose Forum Physics and Society he co-founded and whose Panel for Public Affairs he was on from 2002 to 2004) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science , whose Science and Human Rights Program he co-founded and whose Congressional Science Fellow Program he founded.
Together with Soviet scientists and the Federation of American Scientists, he was committed to disarmament from 1987 to 1990. In 1977 he received the APS Forum for Physics and Society Award with Frank von Hippel for their book Advice and Dissent: Scientists in the Political Arena (Basic Books, 1974). He served on the Council of the Federation of American Scientists and founded the Union of Concerned Scientists.
From 1974 to 1978 he was a Sloan Research Fellow . In 1999 he received the Humboldt Research Award . In 2016 Primack received the Leo Szilard Lectureship Award , for 2020 he was awarded the Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize .
1979 to 1980 he advised the commission to investigate the reactor accident at Three Mile Island .
Fonts
- with Nancy Abrams The view from the center of the universe: Discovering Our Extraordinary Place in the Cosmos , Riverhead / Penguin 2006
- with Nancy Abrams The new universe and the human future: How a Shared Cosmology Could Transform the World , Yale University Press 2011
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ↑ Joel Primack in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
- ↑ Pagels, Primack Supersymmetry, cosmology, and new physics at teraelectronvolt energies , Phys. Rev. Letters, Volume 48, 1982, p. 223
- ↑ Blumenthal, Faber, Primack, Rees Formation of galaxies and large-scale structure with cold dark matter , Nature, Volume 311, 1984, p. 517
- ↑ A. Klypin, S. Trujillo-Gomze, Primack Halos and galaxies in the standard cosmological model: results from the Bolshoi simulation , Astroph. Journal, Volume 740, 2011, p. 102, Arxiv
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Primack, Joel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Primack, Joel Robert (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist and astrophysicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 14, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Santa Barbara |