John Peoples

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John Peoples

John Peoples Jr. is an American physicist who studies particle accelerators . From 1989 to 1999 he was director of the Fermilab .

Peoples studied electrical engineering at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (Bachelor 1955) and then worked as an engineer at Martin Aircraft Corporation . In 1959 he began studying physics at Columbia University , where he received his doctorate in 1966. He then went to Columbia and Cornell University as well as Brookhaven National Laboratory and from 1971 at Fermilab, where he stayed for the rest of his career. In the 1970s he was involved in high energy experiments. In 1981 he became project manager for the antiproton source at Tevatron . In the 1990s, he was in charge of the laboratory and made a significant contribution to the Tevatron expanding its leading position: From 1990 to 1994, the luminosity of the Tevatron increased by a factor of 20 (which made the discovery of the top quark possible), followed by one Another factor 20 after the installation of the Main Injector completed in 1999 , which was launched under the direction of Peoples in 1990 (at a time when the SSC was still considered the next major accelerator project).

From 1993 to 1994, at the time of its shutdown, he was head of the SSC, for whose Central Design Group he was seconded from the Fermilab to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory from 1987 to 1988 .

From 1993 to 1997 he was chairman of the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA), which, after the SSC closed during this time, identified the LHC as the next major (international) project.

After becoming director at Fermilab, he turned to astrophysics and was director of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey from 1998 to 2003 .

In 1970 he received a research grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ( Sloan Research Fellowship ). In 1992 he became a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science . In 2010 he received the Robert R. Wilson Prize .

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