Peter Paul (physicist)

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Peter Paul (born November 24, 1932 in Dresden ; † March 11, 2017 in Setauket , Long Island , New York ) was a German nuclear physicist .

Paul received his doctorate in 1959 at the University of Freiburg and then worked as a postdoc at Stanford University before moving to the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNY) in 1967 . There he was Department Chairman from 1986 to 1990 and from 1996 to 1998. In 1992 he was made a Distinguished Professor .

In 1998 Paul was appointed as the new Deputy Director for Science & Technology at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL). In the same year, as Chair of the Nuclear Science Advisory Committee, to which he had been a member since 1980, he was significantly involved in the planning for the construction of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider . After the then laboratory director John H. Marburger was appointed science advisor to George W. Bush , Paul worked as interim director of the BNL from 2001 to 2003. After his tenure, Paul returned to Stony Brook University and retired in 2015.

Paul's research interests included the dipole resonances and decay mechanisms of heavy atomic nuclei, neutrino oscillations and heavy ion physics. He was also instrumental in the design and construction of a linear accelerator for studying collisions of heavy ions at Stony Brook University.

For his research in nuclear physics, Paul received the Humboldt Research Prize , the First Class Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and an honorary doctorate from Lomonossow University in Moscow . In addition, Paul u. a. Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the American Physical Society .

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Individual evidence

  1. M. Thoennessen, DR Chakrabarty, MG Herman, R. Butsch, P. Paul: Giant Dipole Resonance in Highly Excited Thorium: Evidence for Strong Fission Hindrance . In: Physical Review Letters . tape 59 , no. 25 , December 21, 1987, pp. 2860–2863 , doi : 10.1103 / PhysRevLett.59.2860 ( aps.org [accessed July 19, 2019]).
  2. K. Abe, N. Abgrall, H. Aihara, Y. Ajima, JB Albert: The T2K experiment . In: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment . tape 659 , no. 1 , December 11, 2011, ISSN  0168-9002 , p. 106–135 , doi : 10.1016 / j.nima.2011.06.067 ( sciencedirect.com [accessed July 19, 2019]).
  3. P. Braun-Munzinger, P. Paul, L. Ricken, J. Stachel, PH Zhang: Pion Production in Heavy-Ion Collisions at . In: Physical Review Letters . tape 52 , no. 4 , January 23, 1984, pp. 255–258 , doi : 10.1103 / PhysRevLett.52.255 ( aps.org [accessed July 19, 2019]).
  4. JW Noe, P. Paul, GD Sprouse, GJ Dick, JE Mercereau: The Stony Brook Superconducting Heavy-Ion Booster Project . In: IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science . tape 24 , no. 3 , June 1977, ISSN  0018-9499 , pp. 1144–1146 , doi : 10.1109 / TNS.1977.4328876 ( ieee.org [accessed July 19, 2019]).
  5. ^ Peter Braun-Munzinger, Volker Metag, II and Johanna Stachel: In Memoriam: Peter Paul (1933–2017) . In: Nuclear Physics News International . tape 27 , no. 4 , December 2017, p. 39 (American English, nupecc.org [PDF; 8.6 MB ; accessed on July 19, 2019]).