Robert K. Adair

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Robert Kemp Adair (born August 14, 1924 in Fort Wayne , Indiana ) is an American physicist who deals with elementary particle physics , nuclear physics and biophysics .

During the Second World War he was with the infantry in Europe and was awarded the Purple Heart and Bronze Star after being wounded (shot in the arm and head) .

Adair received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin in 1951 , where he was an instructor in physics until 1953. He was then at Brookhaven National Laboratory (where he dealt with experimental nuclear physics) and from 1959 Associate Professor and later Professor at Yale University . From 1967 to 1970 he headed the physics faculty there. From 1972 he was Eugene Higgins Professor and from 1988 Sterling Professor of Physics and in 1994 he retired. He was also director of the physics department at Brookhaven National Laboratory from 1977 to 1981 and associate director (responsible for high energy physics and nuclear physics) from 1987/88. He made his most important contributions in the field of physics of kaons and other weakly interacting particles.

After his retirement, Adair studied the effects of weak electromagnetic radiation on biological cells. He also studied the physics of baseball , about which he wrote a book that has been published several times. He was a consultant to the National Baseball League for many years .

Adair is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Physical Society (whose Particles and Fields Department he chaired) and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Wisconsin (D. Sc., 1994). In 1953 he was a Guggenheim Fellow and from 1960 a Sloan Research Fellow . In 1962 he was a Ford Foundation scholar at CERN .

He has been married since 1952 and has three children.

Fonts

  • The Physics of Baseball, Harper Perennial, 3rd edition 2002
  • The Great Design: Particles, Fields, Creation, Oxford University Press 1987
  • Neutron Cross Sections of the Elements . In: Rev. Mod. Phys. tape 22 , 1950, pp. 249 , doi : 10.1103 / RevModPhys.22.249 .
  • JK Black: Measurement of the CP Nonconservation Parameter Epsilon-prime / Epsilon . In: Phys. Rev. Lett. tape 54 , 1985, pp. 1628-1630 , doi : 10.1103 / PhysRevLett.54.1628 .
  • SR Blatt, RK Adair, JK Black, MK Campbell, H. Kasha, MP Schmidt, LB Leipuner, RC Larsen, WM Morse: Search For T Invariance Violation In K + (mu3) Decay . In: Phys. Rev. D . tape 27 , 1983, pp. 1056-1068 , doi : 10.1103 / PhysRevD.27.1056 .
  • Robert K Adair: Static and low-frequency magnetic field effects: health risks and therapies . In: Rep. Progr. Phys. tape 63 , no. 3 , 2000, pp. 415 , doi : 10.1088 / 0034-4885 / 63/3/204 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ^ 9 Questions for Baseball Physicist Robert Adair. In: Popular Mechanics. October 1, 2009, accessed November 10, 2018 .
  3. ^ Member: Robert K. Adair. National Academy of Sciences, accessed November 10, 2018 .
  4. ^ Robert K. Adair. Guggenheim Foundation, accessed November 10, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Adair, Robert K.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adair, Robert Kemp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Fort Wayne