Thomas L. Collins

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Thomas L. Collins (* 1921 ; † 1996 ) was a Canadian physicist who worked on particle accelerators .

Life

Collins studied at the University of British Columbia , where he received his master's degree in 1942 and his doctorate in 1950. From the mid-1950s he was one of the main architects (with Kenneth W. Robinson ) of the Cambridge Electron Accelerator (CEA) at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the direction of M. Stanley Livingston (the machine was a 6 GeV electron storage ring and operated from 1962 to 1974). From 1968 until his retirement in 1988 he was at the Fermilab , where he played an important role as a recognized expert both in the construction of the respective accelerators and in the Tevatron's CDF detector . Collins was on various governing committees of the laboratory and also temporarily represented Director Robert R. Wilson . Since he had a tendency to be lonely, he did not rise to top management positions.

In 1994 he received the Robert R. Wilson Prize .

literature

  • Andrew Sessler, Edmund Wilson Engines of Discovery , World Scientific 2007

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sessler, Wilson Engines of Discovery , p. 73
personal data
SURNAME Collins, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian physicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1921
DATE OF DEATH 1996