Melvyn J. Shochet

Melvyn Jay "Mel" Shochet (born October 31, 1944 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ) is an American physicist at the University of Chicago .

Shochet acquired in 1966 at the University of Pennsylvania a Bachelor and 1972 at the Princeton University a master and with the work on experimental study of the two-photon decays of the neutral K meson in the later Nobel Prize winner James W. Cronin a Ph.D. in physics. He has been at the Enrico Fermi Institute at the University of Chicago since 1972 , initially as a research assistant and lecturer, and since 1985 as a professor. Here he is today (as of 2018) Kersten Distinguished Service Professor of Physics . In 1978 he received a research grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ( Sloan Research Fellowship ).

Melvyn Shochet deals with high energy physics . He was able to prove the top quark at the CDF of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago and determine essential of its properties and check the basic assumptions of the Standard Model of particle physics . He works (as of 2018) on the ATLAS detector , which is part of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN near Geneva.

Shochet was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005, the National Academy of Sciences in 2006, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2012 .

Web links

• Melvyn J. Shochet and personal website at the University of Chicago (uchicago.edu)
• Melvyn J. Shochet and Oral History (October 17, 1995) at the American Institute of Physics (aip.org)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ An experimental study of the two-photon decays of the neutral K mesons. In: worldcat.org. Retrieved March 25, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter S. (PDF; 1.4 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved March 25, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Melvyn Shochet. In: nasonline.org. Retrieved March 25, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Shochet, Melvyn J. (No longer available online.) In: aaas.org. February 24, 2017, archived from the original on March 25, 2018 ; accessed on March 25, 2018 (English).