Thomas J. Devlin

Thomas J. Devlin (born August 23, 1935 in Jenkintown , Pennsylvania ) is an American experimental high-energy physicist.

Devlin went to school in Jenkintown and Philadelphia and studied physics at LaSalle College with a bachelor's degree in 1957 and from the University of California, Berkeley with a master's degree in 1959 and a PhD in 1961 with Burton J. Moyer. 1962 to 1967 he was at Princeton University and then he was a professor at Rutgers University . In 2007 he retired there and went to the University of Pennsylvania .

He was a visiting scientist at CERN (1970/71) and at Fermilab (1980/81, 1988 to 1990). He performed experiments on the Bevatron 184 inch cyclotron in Berkeley, the AGS of the Brookhaven National Laboratory , the Princeton-Pennsylvania Accelerator, the Fermilab, and CERN.

In 2005 he switched to astrophysics and worked at the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) on observing the polarization of radio emissions from galaxies.

For experiments on polarization and magnetic moment of hyperons from 1974 to 1985 at the Fermilab he received the Panofsky Prize in 1994 . He later worked on the Fermilab's CDF detector

In 1985 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . In 1991 he was a Guggenheim Fellow .

He is married to psychologist Nancy Devlin and has three sons, including producer Paul Devlin . His son Mark Devlin is a professor of astrophysics and astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania.

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