Stanley Wojcicki

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Stanley G. Wojcicki (born March 30, 1937 in Warsaw as Stanisław Wójcicki ) is a Polish-American physicist.

Life

Wojcicki graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in 1957 and received a PhD in experimental high energy physics from the University of California, Berkeley , in 1962 . As a post-doctoral student he worked in Berkeley at (Lawrence Radiation Laboratory), at the Collège de France and at CERN . In 1966 he became assistant professor (assistant professor), 1968 Associate Professor (Associate Professor) and in 1974 a professor at Stanford University . From 1982 to 1985 he was head of the physics faculty and since 2010 he has retired. In 1973/74 and 1980/81 he worked at CERN for one year each. In addition to the SLAC and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and CERN, he also conducted research at the Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Fermilab .

Wojcicki dealt with the resonance of strange particles and their interpretation in the quark model in his dissertation and afterwards . He was in Luis Alvarez's group who discovered the xi-baryon (quark content u, s, s) and the discovery of resonances of strange particles, in which he was involved, contributed to the establishment of the quark model in the 1960s. Later he dealt with CP violation , weak decays (such as rare K meson decays at Brookhaven National Laboratory ), the muon g-2 experiment, measurement of mass and coupling of the tau lepton, generation and decay of bound states of heavy quarks , Electron-positron annihilation and neutrino oscillations (at the Fermilab ). The MINOS experiment at Fermilab detected a neutrino beam generated there in an underground laboratory 730 km away in northern Minnesota.

He was involved in the discovery and investigation of the charge asymmetry in the decay of the K 0 L , which was a strong indication of CP violation. He also measured important parameters of CP violation.

He was chairman of the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel (HEPAP) and director of a subcommittee from 1990 to 1996 when the Superconducting Super Collider Project was approved . Wojcicki was deputy director of the SSC planning group for four years.

Honors

For 2015 he was awarded the Panofsky Prize . In 2011 he received the Bruno Pontecorvo Prize and in 1980 the Humboldt Research Prize . He was a Sloan Research Fellow from 1968 to 1972 and a Guggenheim Fellow from 1973 to 1974 . He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (1971). In 1964/65 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the National Science Foundation . He is an external member of the Polish Academy of Learning in Cracow .

Private

He is married to the teacher and journalist Esther Wojcicki (Vice President of Creative Commons ) and has three children with her. His daughter Susan Wojcicki is the CEO of YouTube and his daughter Anne Wojcicki (* 1973) co-founder of a genetic testing company (23andMe) and ex-wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin . Anne Wojcicki and Brin founded a professorship for experimental particle physics at Stanford in 2010 on behalf of their father.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dates of birth according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ↑ Alvarez et al. a. Neutral cascade hyperon event , Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 2, 1959, pp. 215-219, abstract
  3. ↑ Creative Commons: Team: Advisory Council (English), accessed on June 7, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Wojcicki, Stanley
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wojcicki, Stanley G .; Wójcicki, Stanisław
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw