Raphael Littauer
Raphael M. Littauer (born November 28, 1925 in Leipzig ; † October 19, 2009 ) was an American physicist who dealt with particle accelerators .
Littauer received his doctorate in 1950 from Cambridge University (Christ's College). He was later a professor at Cornell University , where Robert R. Wilson brought him in 1950. There he was involved in the development of several electron accelerators, in particular the Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR), where he made a significant contribution to its development through methods he developed (such as pretzel-shaped paths to increase the number of particle packets in circulation) achieved the highest luminosity of all electron-positron storage rings in its time .
In 1991 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . In 1995 he received the Robert R. Wilson Prize .
He has received several teaching awards from Cornell University. As early as 1971 he installed a student response system with which the students could signal during the lecture to what extent they could follow the explanations. In the mid-1970s he was also chairman of the Cornell Faculty of Physics. As an active opponent of the Vietnam War , he published a study on the effects of the bombings by the US Air Force in Vietnam.
He had been married to Alexandra Littauer since 1950, with whom he had a son and a daughter.
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| SURNAME | Littauer, Raphael |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Littauer, Raphael M. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 28, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 19, 2009 |