Lee Grodzins
Lee Grodzins (born July 10, 1926 in Lowell , Massachusetts ) is an American physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology .
In 1954 he received his Ph. D. in physics from Purdue University . He stayed as a lecturer in physics from 1954 to 1955 and was then a researcher at Brookhaven National Laboratory until 1959 . In the Goldhaber experiment , which he carried out together with Maurice Goldhaber and Andrew Sunyar from 1956 to 1958 , the helicity of the neutrinos was determined - they are left-handed, which confirmed the VA theory of the weak interaction (and again the parity violation ). In 1959 he went to MIT, where he was a professor from 1966 to 1998.
He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and, since 1977, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1964/65 and 1971/72 he was a Guggenheim Fellow . He was one of the founders of the Union of Concerned Scientists and was its chairman in 1972. In 1998 he received an honorary doctorate from Purdue University.
literature
- American Men & Women of Science. 19th edition: 1995–96. Volume 3: G-I. RR Bowler, New Providence, New Jersey 1994, ISBN 0-8352-3466-5 (Volume 3), ISBN 0-8352-3463-0 (Complete Works ), p. 415
Web links
- Lee Grodzins. Honorary Degree Recipient. In: Purdue University. (English).
- Lee Grodzins, Ph.D. ( Memento of February 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) on the Cornerstones of Science page
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| SURNAME | Grodzins, Lee |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 10, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lowell , Massachusetts |