Sally Dawson
Sally Dawson (born August 31, 1955 in Cleveland , Ohio ) is an American physicist who deals with theoretical elementary particle physics.
Dawson studied mathematics and physics at Duke University with a bachelor's degree in 1977 and from Harvard University with a master's degree in 1978 and a doctorate in 1981. As a post-doctoral student , she was at Fermilab (1983 to 1986) and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (1981 to 1983). From 1986 she was at Brookhaven National Laboratory , where she became Senior Scientist in 1994 and group leader in 1998. From 2001 she was also an adjunct professor at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
She is particularly concerned with the search and experimental signatures of the Higgs boson (and extended models for it) and, with others, authored an influential handbook on it that first appeared in 1990.
She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science . In 2015 she received the Humboldt Research Award . She was chairman of the Particles and Fields division of the APS and the Fermilab Advisory Committee.
In 2017 she received the Sakurai Prize for fundamental contributions to the properties, reactions and signatures of the Higgs boson, and in 2019 the Julius Wess Prize (for 2018).
Fonts
- with Howard Haber , Gordon L. Kane , John F. Gunion : The Higg`s Hunters Guide, Addison-Wesley 1990, Westview Press 2000
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Birth and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ↑ 2017 JJ Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics Recipient: Sally Dawson, Brookhaven National Laboratory. American Physical Society, accessed June 14, 2019 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Dawson, Sally |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 31, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cleveland , Ohio |