Richard Milner

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Richard Milner (* in Mayfield , Cork ) is an Irish-American nuclear physicist.

Milner studied physics at University College Cork with a bachelor's degree in experimental physics in 1978 and a master's degree in theoretical physics in 1979, and received his PhD from Caltech in 1984 . He was then a Research Fellow there from 1985 to 1988. In 1988 he became an assistant professor and later professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . There he was director of the Bates Linear Accelerator from 1998 to 2006 and director of the Laboratory of Nuclear Science from 2006 to 2015.

He is involved in the Hermes experiment at DESY and is investigating the spin structure of the nucleon, made up of quarks and gluons. Most recently, he is involved in the Bates Large Acceptance Spectrometer Toroid (BLAST) of the Bates Linear Accelerator at MIT. There the spin structure of light nuclei (helium-3, deuterium) is examined.

In addition to DESY and MIT, he also experimented at SLAC , the Indiana University Cyclotron Facility (IUCF) and the Jefferson Lab (including the CLAS 12 experiment). He is developing a He3 ion source at the RHIC of the Brookhaven National Laboratory and has been a proponent of an electron-ion storage ring in the USA for two decades.

He received a Humboldt Research Award and is an honorary doctorate from the National University of Ireland (2010) and a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), whose Department of Nuclear Physics he headed in 2007. From 2014 to 2017 he chaired the International Spin Physics Committee.

For 2020 he received the Tom W. Bonner Prize for Nuclear Physics for pioneering work on the development and use of polarized targets in storage rings and his leadership role in the investigation of the structure of the nucleon in a wide range of electron scattering experiments on nuclei (laudation).

Fonts (selection)

  • with the HERMES Collaboration (K. Ackerstaff et al.):
    • Flavor Decomposition of the Polarized Quark Distributions in the Nucleon from Inclusive and Semi-Inclusive Deep-inelastic Scattering. Phys. Lett. B, Volume 464, 1999, p. 123 (1999).
    • Observation of a Coherence Length Effect in Exclusive Electroproduction, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 82, 1999, p. 3025.
    • Beam Induced Nuclear Depolarization in a Gaseous Polarized Hydrogen Target, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 82, 1999, p. 1164

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Appreciation for Bonner Prize, APS 2019
  2. ↑ For pioneering work developing and using polarized internal targets in storage rings and his leadership role in studying the structure of the nucleon in a wide range of electronuclear experiments , APS
personal data
SURNAME Milner, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish-American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Mayfield (Cork)