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| | 61 | Name: | Dr. William A. Nierenberg | | | Institution: | Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego | | | Year Elected: | 1975 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 106. Physics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1919 | | | Death Date: | September 10, 2000 | | | | |
| 62 | Name: | Dr. Abraham Pais | | | Institution: | Rockefeller University | | | Year Elected: | 1983 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 106. Physics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1918 | | | Death Date: | July 28, 2000 | | | | |
| 63 | Name: | Dr. Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky | | | Institution: | Stanford University | | | Year Elected: | 1985 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 106. Physics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1919 | | | Death Date: | September 24, 2007 | | | | | | |
Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center's (SLAC) first Director, is an internationally known experimental high-energy physicist, expert on particle accelerator design, and governmental advisor on physics and international arms control issues. After receiving his a.b. from Princeton (1938) and Ph.D. from Cal Tech (1942, Physics), he did research for the Office of Scientific Research and Development; he then went to the University of California, Berkeley in 1947 as a researcher and then Associate Professor. He joined the faculty of Stanford University as Professor of Physics in 1951, and took on the directorship of the High Energy Physics Laboratory there in 1953. He became Director of SLAC in 1961, and implemented the creation, design and construction of the new two-mile linear accelerator and development of its research program. As Director of SLAC, until his retirement as Emeritus Director and Professor of Physics at Stanford in 1984, Panofsky oversaw the development of SLAC's various facilities (including the Stanford Positron Electron Accelerator Ring [SPEAR], the Positron-Electron Project [PEP], and the initial stages of the Stanford Linear Collider); he took an active role in the development of its research program and in the management of financial, personnel, health and safety, and other business aspects of the laboratory. As both physicist and arms control expert, he has served on many science policy committees, including the President's Science Advisory Committee (PSAC), the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel (HEPAP) to the Department of Energy (DOE), and the Committee for International Security and Arms Control (CISAC) of the National Academy of Sciences. He is Chairman of the Board of Overseers of University Research Associates for the Super-conducting Super Collider Laboratory. | |
| 64 | Name: | Dr. Philip W. Anderson | | | Institution: | Princeton University | | | Year Elected: | 1991 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 106. Physics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1923 | | | Death Date: | March 29, 2020 | | | | | | |
One of the giants of the theory of condensed matter physics, Philip W. Anderson was born in Indiana in 1923. He went to Harvard University for his undergraduate and graduate work, where he studied under John Hausbrouck van Vleck. In 35 years as a physicist at Bell Laboratories in New Jersey, Dr. Anderson worked on a wide variety of problems in condensed matter physics. He was awarded the 1977 Nobel Prize for his investigations into the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems, which allowed for the development of electronic switching and memory devices in computers. Dr. Anderson was a pioneer in the study of "Anderson localization" of electrons in disordered solids, the transitions between metallic and insulating states, and the concept of spin glasses. A theorist who always maintained close contact with experimentalists, he ranged from physics, through chemistry, to biology. Dr. Anderson was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1982. He served as Joseph Henry Professor of Physics at Princeton University. Philip W. Anderson died March 29, 2020 in Princeton, New Jersey at the age of 96. | |
| 65 | Name: | Dr. David Pines | | | Institution: | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign & University of California, Davis | | | Year Elected: | 1988 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 106. Physics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1924 | | | Death Date: | May 3, 2018 | | | | | | |
David Pines was the founding co-director of the Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter (a multicampus research program of the University of California) and Research Professor of Physics and Professor Emeritus of Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Center for Advanced Study at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, on whose faculty he had served since 1978. The recipient of two Guggenheim Fellowships, the Feenberg Medal and the Friemann, Dirac, and Drucker Prizes, Dr. Pines made seminal contributions to the theory of many-body systems and to theoretical astrophysics. His research focuses on the search for the organizing principles responsible for emergent behavior in matter, with particular attention to correlated matter, the study of materials in which unexpectedly new classes of behavior emerge in response to the strong and competing interactions among their elementary constituents. He was a member of National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the Russian Academy of Sciences. David Pines died May 3, 2018, at age 83 in Urbana, Illinois. | |
| 66 | Name: | Dr. Edward M. Purcell | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 1954 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 106. Physics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1912 | | | Death Date: | 3/7/97 | | | | |
| 67 | Name: | Dr. Helen R. Quinn | | | Institution: | SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University | | | Year Elected: | 2009 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 106. Physics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1943 | | | | | | |
Helen R. Quinn works as the Assistant to the Director for Education and Public Outreach and previously worked as a professor and chair of the PPA Faculty at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. Helen Quinn's work with Georgi and Weinberg on the unification of gauge coupling constants still plays a central role in attempts to find a unified theory of all interactions. The mechanism she proposed with Peccei to assure parity and time-reversal invariance in strong interactions has had far-reaching consequences for model building and axion searches. Her recent research has focused on deciphering the details of the tiny violations of these symmetries. She is a member of the BABAR collaboration at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center that, together with the BELLE collaboration in Japan, provided the first evidence for such effects in B-mesons. She contributes to the Particle Data Group, which maintains an updated compilation of data in particle physics and cosmology, and has been active in outreach and education efforts. She has done important service for the national physics community, in particular as president of the American Physical Society. She was the 2000 winner of the Dirac Medal and is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (1998) and the National Academy of Sciences (2003). In 2016 she was awarded the AIP Karl Compton Medal. | |
| 68 | Name: | Dr. Norman F. Ramsey | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 1958 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 106. Physics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1915 | | | Death Date: | November 4, 2011 | | | | | | |
Norman F. Ramsey won the Nobel Prize in 1989 for his work on the hydrogen maser and the atomic clock, which underpins the Global Positioning System and many other important technologies. He did his Ph.D. work under I.I. Rabi at Columbia University, and during WWII he worked on the Manhattan Project and at the MIT Radiation Lab on the development of radar. Dr. Ramsey then returned to Columbia as a professor, working with Rabi and others on molecular beam research. Together with Rabi, he laid the groundwork for the establishment of Brookhaven National Laboratory, and in 1946 he became the first head of its physics department. A year later, he accepted a professorship at Harvard University and remained at Harvard, becoming Higgins Professor of Physics Emeritus in 1986 although he continued his work through the early 90s. Dr. Ramsey was recognized with numerous prestigious research awards as well as the Oersted Medal in recognition of his contributions to physics and math teaching. A former Science Advisor to NATO, he has been honored with membership in the American Physical Society and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Dr. Ramsey died on November 4, 2011, at the age of 96 in Wayland, Massachusetts. | |
| 69 | Name: | Dr. Lisa Randall | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 2010 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 106. Physics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1962 | | | | | | |
Lisa Randall's papers with Raman Sundrum on the brane-world with warped extra dimensions are two of the five most highly cited works in high energy theory in the last 20 years. This should not come as a surprise though, as the papers effectively open up new directions in so many different areas of particle theory. Her ideas have shaped the discourse in the field from collider phenomenology to cosmology. An unusually broad and powerful field theorist, Randall has also made important contributions to the theory of supersymmetry breaking and phenomenology, inflation, CP violation, electroweak radiative corrections, the axion, heavy quark physics, and dynamical symmetry breaking. Randall's book Warped Passages, describing the brane-world picture without mathematics, is remarkably successful outreach to the general public and was named a New York Times Notable Book in 2005. Her recent books include Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminated the Universe and the Modern World (with Gino Segre, 2012) and Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe (2015). She has received the Premio Caterina Tomassoni e Felice Pietro Chisesi Award from the University of Rome (2003), the Klopsteg Award from the American Association of Physics Teachers (2006), and the Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize from the American Physical Society (2007).
Lisa Randall earned her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1987 and held professorships at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Princeton University before returning to Harvard in 2001. She currently serves as Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences. Lisa Randall was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2010. | |
| 70 | Name: | Dr. Robert Coleman Richardson | | | Institution: | Cornell University | | | Year Elected: | 2001 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 106. Physics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1937 | | | Death Date: | February 19, 2013 | | | | | | |
Robert Richardson served as the F. R. Newman Professor of Physics and Vice Provost for Research at Cornell University. One of the leading experts in the world on ultra low temperature phenomena, he is a co-discoverer of the superfluidity of He-3 at 2.6 mK, a discovery recognized by a Nobel Prize in 1996. This discovery led to an enormous flowering of both experimental and theoretical activity, in which Dr. Richardson remained a major participant for many years (at first, in the study of novel collective modes with ultrasound). He become a public-spirited spokesman for physics in general. He served with the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, on many government committees and on the board of the National Science Foundation. Dr. Richardson died February 19, 2013, at age 75 in Ithaca, New York. | |
| 71 | Name: | Dr. Burton Richter | | | Institution: | Stanford University; Stanford Linear Accelerator Center | | | Year Elected: | 2003 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 106. Physics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1931 | | | Death Date: | July 18, 2018 | | | | | | |
Burton Richter was the Paul Pigott Professor in the Physical Sciences at Stanford University and Director Emeritus of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center at the time of his death on July 18, 2018. Born in 1931 in New York, he received his B.S. and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1952 and 1956, respectively. He began as a post doc at Stanford University in 1956, became a professor in 1967, and was director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center from 1984-99. His research centered on experimental particle physics with high-energy electrons and electron- positron colliding beams. After 1999 he devoted an increasing amount of time to issues relating to energy and sustainable development. Dr. Richter received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1976, the E. O. Lawrence Medal of the Department of Energy in 1976, and the National Medal of Science in 2014. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences; a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Physical Society (president, 1994). He was president of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics from 1999-2002 and served on many advisory committees to governments, laboratories and universities. He also served as a member of the Department of Energy's Secretary of Energy Advisory Board, Laboratory Operations Board, the Transmutation Subcommittee of the Nuclear Energy Research Advisory Committee, and the French Commissaire a l'Energie Atomique (CEA) Visiting Group. He was also a member of the Jason Group, and chaired the National Research Council's Board on Physics and Astronomy. He was interested in industry and its use of science and technology and had been a member of the General Motors Science Advisory Committee, chairman of the technology advisory board of an artificial intelligence company, a member of the Board of Directors of Varian Associates and Varian Medical Systems, and Litel Instruments and AREVA Enterprises, Inc. | |
| 72 | Name: | Dr. Marshall N. Rosenbluth | | | Institution: | University of California, San Diego & ITER | | | Year Elected: | 1998 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 106. Physics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1927 | | | Death Date: | September 28, 2003 | | | | |
| 73 | Name: | Dr. Bruno B. Rossi | | | Institution: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | | Year Elected: | 1959 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 106. Physics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1905 | | | Death Date: | 11/21/93 | | | | |
| 74 | Name: | Dr. Roald Zinnurovich Sagdeev | | | Institution: | University of Maryland | | | Year Elected: | 2008 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 106. Physics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1932 | | | | | | |
Roald Sagdeev is Distinguished University Professor of Physics and the Director of the East West Space Science Center at the University of Maryland. He is known for his pioneering work in nonlinear physics and hot plasmas, particularly collisionless shocks and plasma turbulence, cosmic rays, and planetary science as well as being a leading figure in the Soviet nuclear fusion program. As director of the Soviet Cosmic Research Institute, he led the development of pioneering planetary missions to Mars and Venus and the international missions to Halley's Comet. He served as science advisor to Mikhail Gorbachev and E. Shevardnadze on arms control and space exploration and later was elected to the USSR Supreme Soviet. At the age of 36, he became one of the youngest persons ever to be elected as a full member (academician) of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Sagdeev's honors and awards include the Tate Medal from the American Institute of Physics (1992); the Italian Prize Science for Peace (1994); the American Physical Society's Maxwell Prize (2001); and membership in the National Academy of Sciences (1987), the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (1990) and the Russian Academy of Sciences. Roald Sagdeev was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2008. | |
| 75 | Name: | Dr. Edwin E. Salpeter | | | Institution: | Cornell University | | | Year Elected: | 1977 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 106. Physics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1924 | | | Death Date: | November 25, 2008 | | | | | | |
A recognized leader in the broad areas between physics, atomic theory and astrophysics, Edwin E. Salpeter is a theoretical physicist and J. G. White Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Physical Sciences at Cornell University, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1949. His recent interests include high velocity gas clouds and galaxy clusters and superclusters. Born in Austria in 1924, Dr. Salpeter holds a Ph.D. from the University of Birmingham, where he was also a research fellow in science and industry. In 1951 he explained how the triple-alpha reaction could make carbon from helium in stars, and he then went on to investigate the effects of nuclear physics on stellar evolution, deriving the initial mass function from stellar evolution and the observed abundances of stars of different luminosities. Dr. Salpeter has contributed many articles to scientific journals on problems of atomic physics, quantum electrodynamics, nuclear theory, energy production in stars and theoretical astrophysics and has also been involved in the study of synapses in neurobiology and epidemiology and Meta-analysis in medicine. A former vice president of the American Astronomical Society, Dr. Salpeter is the recipient of awards including the Bruce Medal (1987), the Bethe Prize (1999) and the Crafoord Prize (1997). He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. | |
| 76 | Name: | Dr. Arthur L. Schawlow | | | Institution: | Stanford University | | | Year Elected: | 1984 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 106. Physics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1921 | | | Death Date: | 4/28/99 | | | | |
| 77 | Name: | Dr. John Robert Schrieffer | | | Institution: | National High Magnetic Field Laboratory & Florida State University | | | Year Elected: | 1975 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 106. Physics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1931 | | | Death Date: | July 27, 2019 | | | | | | |
Research physicist John R. Schrieffer performed fundamental studies in solid state and low temperature properties of matter, including superconductivity and electromagnetism. With John Bardeen and Leon Neil Cooper he shared the 1972 Nobel Prize for developing the BCS theory, the first successful microscopic theory of superconductivity. After receiving a Ph.D. in 1957 from the University of Illinois, Dr. Schrieffer taught at the University of Chicago (1957-60), the University of Illinois (1959-62), the University of Pennsylvania (1962-80) and the University of California, Santa Barbara (1980-92). From 1992 until 2006 he served as Chief Scientist at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and Eminent Scholar Professor at Florida State University, where he has pursued the study of room temperature superconductivity. Dr. Schrieffer was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the author of the BCS theory book Theory of Superconductivity (1964). He died July 27, 2019 in Tallahassee, Florida at the age of 88. | |
| 78 | Name: | Dr. Emilio Gino Segre | | | Institution: | University of California, Berkeley | | | Year Elected: | 1963 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 106. Physics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1905 | | | Death Date: | 4/22/89 | | | | |
| 79 | Name: | Dr. Frederick Seitz | | | Institution: | Rockefeller University | | | Year Elected: | 1946 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 106. Physics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1911 | | | Death Date: | March 2, 2008 | | | | |
| 80 | Name: | Dr. John A. Simpson | | | Institution: | Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago | | | Year Elected: | 1996 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 106. Physics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1916 | | | Death Date: | August 31, 2000 | | | | |
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