William Rarita
William Rarita (March 21, 1907 – July 8, 1999)[1] was an American theoretical physicist who mainly worked on nuclear physics, particle physics and relativistic quantum mechanics. He is particularly famous for the formulation of Rarita-Schwinger equation. His famous formula is applicable to spin 3/2 particles as opposed to spin 1/2 particles. Rarita taught physics at Brooklyn College for 32 years before he became a visiting scientist in the theory group at LBNL. At the time of his retirement in 1996, he was doing research at LBNL. In addition to his work with Julian Schwinger, Rarita also collaborated with Herman Feshbach.
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 Columbia University
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 Tuesday, April 16, 2013 Tuesday, April 16, 2013 Isadore Isaac Rabi l944 Nobel Physics
"for his resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei"
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 Polykarp Kusch 1955 Nobel Physics
"for his resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei"s
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 Charles Hard Townes 1964 Nobel Physics
"for fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principle"
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 Arno Allan Penzias 1978 Nobel Physics
"for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation"
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 Robert Woodrow Wilson 1978 Nobel Physics
"for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation"
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 Leo James Rainwater 1975 Nobel Physics
"for the discovery of the connection between collective motion and particle motion in atomic nuclei and the development of the theory of the structure of the atomic nucleus based on this connection”
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 Leon M. Lederman 1988 Nobel Physics
"for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino"
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 Melvin Schwartz 1988 Nobel Physics
"for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino"
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 Shirley Leon Quimby
June 07, 1986 NEW YORK — SHIRLEY LEON QUIMBY, 93, a professor emeritus of physics at Columbia University whose research in solid-state physics led to the development of antimagnetic mine devices in World War II, died May 15. He became an instructor at Columbia in 1919 and a full professor in 1943.
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 Henry M. Foley
(1917–1982) was an American experimental physicist. He was a professor and a leading physicist at Columbia University, later serving as chairman of the physics department.[1] In 1948, Polykarp Kusch, working with Henry Foley, discovered the anomalous magnetic dipole moment of the electron.[2][3] He served on the JASON Defense Advisory Group, an independent group of scientists which advises the United States Government on matters of science and technology. He also served on the MX Missile Basing advisory panel.
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 Gerald Feinberg
(27 May 1933 – 21 April 1992) was a Columbia University physicist, futurist and populist author. He spent a year as a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, and two years at the Brookhaven Laboratories. He coined the term tachyon for hypothetical faster-than-light particles and analysed their quantum field properties, [ predicted the existence of the muon neutrino and advocated cryonics as a public service. He was a member of the Foresight Institute's advisory panel.ss
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 Lucy Julia Hayner
Hayner (Mrs. Bernhard Kurrelmeyer) was professor of physics at Columbia University, 1929-1971. She had also been a research physicist for General Electric, 1925-1928.
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 Joaquin (Quin) Mazdak Luttinger
(December 2, 1923, New York — April 6, 1997, New York) was an American physicist well-known for his contributions to the theory of interacting electrons in one- dimensional metals (the electrons in these metals are said to be in a Luttinger- liquid state) and the Fermi- liquid theory. His brother is the physical chemist Lionel Luttinger (1920 - 2009) and his nephew is the mathematician Karl Murad Luttinger (born 1961).
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 Robert Serber
(March 14, 1909 - June 1, 1997) was an American physicist who participated in the Manhattan Project. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; he was the eldest son of David Serber and Rose Frankel. He married Charlotte Leof (26 Jul 1911 - 1967) in 1933. Rose Serber died in 1922; David married Charlotte's cousin Frances Leof in 1928.
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 Robert Jastrow
(1925-2008) was Director and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Mount Wilson Institute, which manages Mount Wilson Observatory in California on behalf of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Dr. Jastrow was a member of the NASA Alumni Association. Dr. Jastrow received his A.B., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in theoretical physics from Columbia University. He joined NASA when it was formed in 1958 and was a prominent figure in the American space program from its inception. Dr. Jastrow was the first chairman of NASA’s Lunar Exploration Committee, which established the scientific goals for the exploration of the Moon during the Apollo lunar landings. In 1961, Dr. Jastrow set up NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, a U.S. Government laboratory charged with carrying out research in astronomy and planetary science. He served as director of the Goddard Institute until his retirement from NASA in 1981.
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