Michael K. Moe

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Michael K. Moe (born November 17, 1937 in Milwaukee ) is an American experimental particle and nuclear physicist.

Moe graduated from Stanford University with a bachelor's degree in 1959 and received his PhD in physics from Case Western Reserve University in 1965 with Frederick Reines . As a post-doctoral student , he did research on cosmic rays at Caltech . From 1966 he was at the University of California, Irvine , where he became Assistant Professor in 1968, Associate Professor in 1973 and Professor in 1980. In 1997 he retired, but remained scientifically active.

Moe is known for the direct discovery of the double beta decay in Selenium 82 in 1987. He first looked for it with bubble chambers (after a preprint by CS Wu interested him in the subject) and finally developed a time projection chamber especially for it . His group then observed the rare decay in Ca 48, Mo 100, Nd 150. He was also involved in the search for the neutrino-free double beta decay, about which he made a proposal in 1991 and which he pursued in the EXO collaboration (headed by Giorgio Gratta in Stanford).

For 2013 he received the Tom W. Bonner Prize for Nuclear Physics .

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  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ↑ It was observed indirectly as early as the 1960s
  3. ↑ Steve Elliott, Alan Hahn, MK Moe Direct evidence for two-neutrino double-beta decay in 82 Se , Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 59, 1987, pp. 2220-2223, abstract
  4. ^ Moe Detection of neutrinoless double beta decay , Phys. Rev. C, Volume 44, 1991, R 931-R 934, abstract
personal data
SURNAME Moe, Michael K.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Milwaukee