Morris Pripstein
Morris Pripstein , also Moishe Pripstein, (* 1935 in Montreal ) is a Canadian physicist.
Pripstein studied physical engineering at McGill University with a bachelor's degree in 1957. He received his PhD in experimental particle physics from the University of California, Berkeley , in 1962 and was then at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , where he was initially in the bubble chamber group of Luis Walter Alvarez was, Staff Senior Scientist and Research Group Leader (in Group A, the successor to the Alvarez Group). In 2005 he retired there and became program director of the National Science Foundation for the contribution of US scientists to the LHC at CERN (two years earlier he had been on leave from the LBNL for the relevant position at the Department of Energy).
Pripstein was chairman of the Scientists for Sakharov, Orlov and Sharansky (SOS) in support of the dissidents Andrei Sakharov , Yuri Fyodorovich Orlow and Anatoly Sharansky and other scientists in the Soviet Union. They organized 7,900 scientists and engineers from 44 countries who threatened to cease scientific relations with the Soviet Union if the persecution of Soviet scientists continued.
In 2010 he received the Andrei Sakharov Prize and in 1998 the Heinz R. Pagels Human Rights of Scientists Award . In 1991 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society .
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| SURNAME | Pripstein, Morris |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montreal |