Lowell Bollinger
Lowell M. Bollinger (born April 28, 1923 in Greene County , Virginia , † September 25, 2014 in Harpswell , Maine ) was an American experimental nuclear physicist .
Bollinger graduated from Oberlin College with a bachelor's degree in 1943, was a physicist on the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics from 1943 to 1946 , and received his doctorate in physics from Cornell University in 1951 with a dissertation on one of the earliest measurements of cosmic rays underground (in a 6600 m deep salt mine). From 1951 he was at the Argonne National Laboratory , where he was director of the physics department from 1963 to 1971 and from 1973 to 1974. From 1971 to 1992 he was director of the heavy ion accelerator Superconducting Linear Accelerator (ATLAS, Argonne Tandem Linear Accelerator System). It went into operation in 1978 and was the first superconducting accelerator for heavy ions.
In 1957 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . In 1986 he received the Tom W. Bonner Prize for Nuclear Physics for his contributions to and his leading role in the development of a superconducting linear accelerator for the production of high quality ion beams, a new technology that expanded the basis for nuclear structure investigations (laudation).
Web links
- Biography at the American Institute of Physics (AIP)
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bollinger, Lowell |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bollinger, Lowell M. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 28, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Greene County , Virginia |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 25, 2014 |
| Place of death | Harpswell , Maine |