Persis Drell

Persis Drell (2009)

Persis S. Drell (born December 30, 1955 ) is an American particle physicist . From 2007 to 2012 she was director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC) .

Drell is the daughter of Sidney Drell . She graduated from Wellesley College (1977 bachelor) and received her PhD in atomic physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1983 . Then she switched to high energy physics and went to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 1983 . From 1988 she was an assistant professor at Cornell University , where she became an associate professor in 1993 and a professor in 1998 and since 2000 headed the group for high energy physics. In 2001 she became Deputy Director of the Nuclear Physics Laboratory. In 2002 she became Research Director and Professor at SLAC , in 2005 Deputy Director (and Director for Particle Physics and Particle Astrophysics) and in 2007 Director. She has been Dean of the School of Engineering at Stanford University since 2014 and Provost of the university since 2017.

From 2004 to 2005 she was the project manager of the Gamma Ray Large Area Space Telescope .

She was a Guggenheim Fellow (1998) and received the Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation from 1988 to 1993 . In 2007 she became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2010 the National Academy of Sciences . She has been a Fellow of the American Physical Society since 1997 . In 2006 she was a Loeb Lecturer at Harvard University . In 2012 she received the Helmholtz International Fellow Award .

Web links

• Homepage at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Standford University. stanford.edu, accessed October 21, 2018 . 
• Persis S. Drell. In: Physics History Network. AIP(English). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Persis Drell. In: Profiles of Faculty Members. stanford.edu, accessed October 21, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Persis Drell named Stanford provost. Stanford University, November 7, 2016, accessed October 21, 2018 .