Sekazi Mtingwa
Sekazi Mtingwa , originally Michael Von Sawyer, (born October 20, 1949 in Atlanta , Georgia ) is an American accelerator physicist .
Mtingwa's father worked as a fitter in a Lockheed factory and his mother was a nurse. Mtingwa graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics in 1971 and received a PhD in high-energy theoretical physics from Princeton University in 1976 . He then worked at Fermilab from 1981 , where he developed the theory of intra-ray scattering with James Bjorken and worked on the accelerators that made the discovery of the top quark there in the early 1990s. He was at the Argonne National Laboratory , taught at North Carolina A&T State University (where he is now retired) and Morgan State University and was Martin Luther King Jr. Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2001 to 2003 and director of the there from 2006 academic programs for minorities and physics lecturer.
He is also actively involved in promoting African Americans and minorities in the natural sciences. He is a co-founder of the National Society of Black Physicists (NSBP), the National Society of Hispanic Physicists, the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Ghana and the African Physical Society, and helped found the African Laser Center in South Africa (and supported South Africa's access to the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility ). For this purpose, he and his wife founded the consulting company Triangle Science (named after the research triangle in North Carolina) and organizes workshops for minorities as President of INCREASE.
From 1988 to 1991 he also developed the theoretical basis for Kielfeld accelerators . Together with Michael Strikman, he made the first suggestions for high-precision experiments with a fixed target on the planned International Linear Collider in the 2000s .
He served ten years on the Nuclear Energy Advisory Committee of the Department of Energy (DOE) and sixteen years on its sub-committee on the nuclear fuel cycle. In 2015, he received the Distinguished Service Award of the American Nuclear Society for the fact that he succeeded in securing 20 percent of the research budget on the DOE's fuel cycle for academic institutions thanks to a study by the APS that he led in 2008.
In 2017, together with James Bjorken and Anton Piwinski, he received the Robert R. Wilson Prize for the detailed theoretical description of scattering in accelerator beams . He is the first African American to receive the award.
He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science .
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- ↑ He changed his name at the university in Sekazi Mtingwa, after expressions of the Tanzanian Bondei language. Sekazi stands for a hard-working man, Mtingwa (chest bone) for someone who overcomes obstacles
- ^ Wilson Prize 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mtingwa, Sekazi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 20, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Atlanta , Georgia |