Thomas J. Bowles

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Thomas Joseph Bowles (born June 27, 1950 ) is an American physicist . He is particularly concerned with nuclear physics and neutrino physics (solar neutrinos).

Bowles graduated from the University of Colorado with a bachelor's degree in 1973 and received a PhD in physics from Princeton University in 1978 . From 1976 to 1979 he was at Argonne National Laboratory and then at Los Alamos National Laboratory . Since 1987 he has been the lead scientist at the Soviet -US Gallium Experiment (SAGE) of a neutrino telescope in the Baksan underground laboratory in the Caucasus , which has been in operation since 1989. The co-leader on the Russian side is Vladimir Gavrin . The observatory served in particular to observe solar neutrinos.

In 2003 he received the Markow Prize . He is a fellow of the American Physical Society .

Individual evidence

  1. Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. Markov Prize 2003