Lee G. Pondrom
Lee Girard Pondrom (born December 26, 1933 in Dallas ) is an American experimental high-energy physicist .
Pondrom studied at Southern Methodist University with a bachelor's degree in 1953 and at the University of Chicago (among others with Gregor Wentzel and Enrico Fermi ) with a master's degree in 1956 and a doctorate in 1958 with Albert Crewe and Uli Kruse. The subject of the dissertation was pion production in proton-proton collisions at the cyclotron of the University of Chicago. He then spent two years with the US Air Force. 1960 to 1963 he was an instructor at Columbia University (Nevis Lab), where Jack Steinberger , Melvin Schwartz and Leon Max Lederman were at that time and who carried out their famous neutrino experiment. In 1963 he went as an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin , where he became a professor in 1969. From 1997 to 2000 he headed the physics faculty.
Pondrom experimented at the cyclotron in Chicago, the Brookhaven National Laboratory , the Pennsylvania-Princeton Accelerator and the Zero Gradient Synchrotron (ZGS) of the Argonne National Laboratory , before he was mainly active at Fermilab from around 1970 . There he was on various committees, temporarily secretary of the Fermilab Users Organization and chairman of the Physics Advisory Committee (PAC) of Fermilab (1981/82).
For experiments on polarization and the magnetic moment of hyperons from 1974 to 1985 at Fermilab, he received the Panofsky Prize in 1994 with Thomas J. Devlin .
From 1980 he was a member of the CDF collaboration at the Fermilab (at that time led by Alvin Tollestrup and Roy Schwitters ).
He was on the program committee of the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) from 1974 to 1976 , at the time that Samuel CC Ting found the J / ψ meson there. He was on the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel (HEPAP) of the Department of Energy (DOE) from 1981 to 1984 and 1986 to 1988 when it was decided to discontinue the Isabelle accelerator at the BNL.
From 1987 to 1989 he was chairman of the Users Organization of the planned Superconducting Super Collider (SSC). He was on the Scientific Policy Committee of SLAC and was on the Review Committee for the Large Hadron Collider for the DOE.
From 1984 to 1986 he was Associate Editor of Physical Review Letters and in 1987 Chairman of the Particles and Fields Division of the American Physical Society.
He is a fellow of the American Physical Society . In 1971/72 he was a Guggenheim Fellow .
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- ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pondrom, Lee G. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pondrome, Lee Girard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 26, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dallas |