Robert McKeown

Robert D. McKeown is an American experimental nuclear physicist .

McKeown graduated from the State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNY) with a bachelor's degree in physics in 1974 and received a PhD from Princeton University in 1979 . As a post-doctoral student he was at the Argonne National Laboratory . In 1981 he became an Assistant Professor, 1986 Associate Professor and 1992 Professor at Caltech . In 2010 he became assistant director of research at Jefferson Lab (home of the CEBAF electron accelerator) and is a professor at the College of William and Mary .

In 2009 he received the Tom W. Bonner Prize for Nuclear Physics for pioneering work on the study of the structure of nucleons with parity-violating electron scattering and especially for the first proof of the contribution of strange quarks to the electromagnetic structure of the proton . He also deals with neutrino oscillations , electromagnetic structure of nucleons and nuclei, and weak interaction in nuclei.

In 1984 he received a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation and in 1999 he was a Cruickshank Lecturer. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society . He was on the editorial board of Physical Review C. He has been a consultant at Fermilab , Jefferson Lab, and Brookhaven National Laboratory .

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SURNAME	McKeown, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	McKeown, Robert D.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH	20th century