Ralph P. Shutt
Ralph P. Shutt (born December 7, 1913 in Switzerland , † February 2, 2001 in New York ) was an American physicist.
Live and act
Shutt grew up in Berlin, where he studied at the Technical University of Berlin and received his doctorate in 1938 . He was already working with cloud chambers in Berlin before he went to the USA via Switzerland in 1939 (his mother was Jewish). In New York he met Thomas H. Johnson (1900-1998), whose assistant at Swarthmore College he was. In 1947 he went with Johnson to Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), where Johnson became head of the physics department. Shutt became head of the cloud chamber group there.
Shutt became a leading physicist for particle detection using cloud chambers and later bubble chambers at the particle accelerators developing in the 1950s, first the Cosmotron at Brookhaven National Laboratory and then at the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS).
In 1953 he discovered at the BNL that unstable particles were generated in pairs ( associated production ), which soon afterwards led to the postulation of the strangeness quantum number. In 1954 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society .
In 1993 he received the Panofsky Prize with Robert Brian Palmer and Nicholas P. Samios . They received the award for their discovery of the omega-minus particle at the BNL in 1964, which was an important confirmation of the Quark model.
Later he turned to the construction of superconducting magnets for particle accelerators.
literature
- Robert Crease Making physics. A biography of Brookhaven National Laboratory 1946–1972 . University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1999, ISBN 0-226-12017-1 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ralph P. Shutt in the US Social Security Death Directory (SSDI), accessed October 4, 2018
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Shutt, Ralph P. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 7, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Switzerland |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 2, 2001 |
| Place of death | new York |