Maury Tigner

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Maury Tigner (born April 22, 1937 in New York City ) is an American physicist who deals with particle accelerator physics and experimental elementary particle physics.

Life

Tigner studied physics at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Bachelor's degree in 1958) and received his doctorate in 1964 from Cornell University . He stayed at Cornell University, where he became Professor of Physics in 1977. He has been Professor Emeritus there since 1994. There (after a stay at DESY with Björn Wiik ) he set up the electron-positron collider CESR ( Cornell Electron Storage Ring ), which went into operation in 1979. After his retirement in 1994, he spent six years at the Institute for High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, when a new stage of the BEPC ( Beijing Electron Positron Collider ) was being set up there. Since 2000 he has been director of the Elementary Particle Physics Laboratory at Cornell University.

He led the design study for the Superconducting Super Collider (he led the Central Design Group of the SCC at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory from 1984) and for the Next Linear Collider.

Tigner has also been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1991 and of the National Academy of Sciences since 1993 . In 2000 he received the Robert R. Wilson Prize and in 2005 the Leo Szilard Lectureship Award from the American Physical Society .

literature

  • Andrew Sessler, Edmund Wilson: Engines of discovery - a century of particle accelerators , World Scientific 2007, p. 89.
  • Tigner, Alexander Chao (Editor): Handbook of Accelerator Physics and Engineering , World Scientific 1999.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ HEPAP's subpanel on Vision for the Future of High-Energy Physics: The Superconducting Super Collider Project. A summary. In: Executive Report. Appendix A. May 1994, archived from the original on July 8, 2008 .;
  2. ^ Member Directory. National Academy of Sciences, accessed October 13, 2018 .
  3. ↑ 2000 Robert R. Wilson Prize for Achievement in the Physics of Particle Accelerators Recipient: Maury Tigner. APS, accessed on October 13, 2018 (For notable contributions to the accelerator field as an inventor, designer, builder, and leader, including early pioneering developments in superconducting radio-frequency systems, inspiration and intellectual leadership for the construction of CESR, and leadership of the SSC Central Design Group).
  4. ^ Leo Szilard Lectureship Award. aps.org, accessed October 13, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Tigner, Maury
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City