Robert E. Pollock
Robert Elwood Pollock (born March 2, 1936 in Regina (Saskatchewan) , † August 28, 2018 in Bloomington , Indiana ) was a Canadian-American experimental nuclear physicist , accelerator physicist and plasma physicist.
Pollock graduated from the University of Manitoba with a bachelor's degree in 1957 and received his PhD from Princeton University in 1962 . As a post-doctoral student he was employed at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment in Harwell until 1964 and then an assistant professor at Princeton University. From 1970 he was associate professor and later professor at Indiana University , where he headed the cyclotron department and received the title Distinguished Professor in 1984. Pollock had been a US citizen since 1995. In 2001 he retired.
He deals with the development of accelerators (storage rings, cyclotrons ), non-neutral plasmas (as they occur in the particle beams of accelerators) and with nuclear physics at medium energies.
In 1985 he received the Humboldt Research Prize and in 1992 the Tom W. Bonner Prize for Nuclear Physics .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ^ Obituary for Robert E. Pollock. Allen Funeral Home and Crematory, accessed September 4, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pollock, Robert E. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pollock, Robert Elwood (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian-American experimental nuclear physicist, accelerator physicist, and plasma physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 2, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Regina, Saskatchewan |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 28, 2018 |
| Place of death | Bloomington , Indiana |