Roy Schwitters
Roy Frederick Schwitters (* 1944 in Seattle ) is an American physicist who deals with experimental elementary particle physics.
Schwitters studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , where he received his bachelor's degree in 1966 and his doctorate in 1970 . He was from 1971 at the SLAC ( Stanford University ), where he was assistant professor in 1974 and associate professor in 1977. From 1979 to 1990 he was a physics professor at Harvard University . In the 1980s he headed the construction of the CDF detector at Fermilab . From 1989 to 1993 he was director of the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) planned in Texas , which was then discontinued in 1993 for cost reasons. Since 1990 he has been a professor at the University of Texas at Austin ( SW Richardson Foundation Regental Professor of Physics ), from 2001 to 2005 as head of the physics faculty.
He is involved in the BaBar experiment at SLAC and is developing the Maya Muon Project at the University of Texas, with which underground detectors for muons from cosmic rays are used to record the structure of the subsurface above the detectors, for example around Mayan ruins explore. In the 1960s, the method was already used by Luis Walter Alvarez on Egyptian pyramids.
He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). In 1996 he received the Panofsky Prize of the APS with Gail Hanson for work that showed that the hadronic final states (mainly particles with spin 0 or 1) in the electron-positron annihilation events investigated at the SPEAR collider in Stanford at the time Fragmentation processes of spin 1/2 particles, namely the quarks that cannot be observed as free particles, emerged. To do this, he compared the angular distribution of the processes with that from pair generation of muons . In 1998 he was a Humboldt Research Fellow.
Schwitters currently heads the JASON Defense Advisory Group .
Web links
- Homepage at the University of Texas. (English).
- Joe Pappalardo: Lasers of the Hidden Temple: Cosmos CAT Scan Digs for Ruins. In: Popular Mechanics. October 1, 2009 (English).
- 1996 WKH Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics Recipient: Roy Frederick Schwitters. APS(English).
Individual evidence
- ^ Lillian Hoddeson (editor): The Rise of the Standard Model. Cambridge University Press 1997
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schwitters, Roy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schwitters, Roy Frederick (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Seattle |