UCR Physics: The Early Years (1953-1973)

May 28, 2011 UCR Physics 50th Anniverarsary Physics Department had 21 faculty by 1973‐ 74

May 28, 2011 UCR Physics 50th Anniverarsary Ground was broken on July 30, Campus Construction 1952. Five new buildings were constructed: Library, Weber Hall (life sciences), Physical Education (pool & gym), Physical Science (now Geology) and Social Science & Humanities. Of course, the “Barn” was remodeled in 1959 and served Citrus Experiment Station 1916 as the campus cafeteria.

May 28, 2011 UCR Physics 50th Anniverarsary 1954‐59 1959‐61

Div. Physical Science (B.S. 1970 College of Physical College of Letters & Science in Physics, Ph.D. 1961) Sciences B.A. in Physical Science Div. Life Offered, Science Div. Social 1969 College of Biological Science & Agricultural Science Div. 1970 College Social & Humanities Behavioral Science

Citrus Experiment 1960 1970 College of Station Graduate Division— Humanities College of Agriculture (Ph.D.) M.A. in Physics Graduate Division

May 28, 2011 UCR Physics 50th Anniverarsary May 28, 2011 UCR Physics 50th Anniverarsary The present Physics Building was completed in 1965, with 53,000 asf. In addition, the Magnet Lab was completed with NSF matching funds.

Physical Science #3 (after Geology and Pierce) May 28, 2011 UCR Physics 50th Anniverarsary 1956 UCR Highlander Football Team: 1‐4‐1 Record. Lost 40‐0 to Redlands Univ.

Constructing and painting the Big “C”

Edward Teller came to UCR for UC Charter Day (92nd Birthday) in 1960 Physical Science Faculty (1961) (Can you spot Bob Wild and D. C. McCollum?

May 28, 2011 UCR Physics 50th Anniverarsary Physics 2000 Lecture Demonstrations

May 28, 2011 UCR Physics 50th Anniverarsary Prof. Robert L. Wild • Founding Faculty Member Research Interests • Department Chair • Solid State Physics • 1993 Distinguished Service • X‐ray studies of EuS Award • 1972‐73 Distinguished Teaching Award • Ferromagnetic and • Planned Physics Building insulator properties at • Equipped Machine Shop low temperatures (>$200K) • Optical spectra of • “Mr. Wizard” for campus crystals Open House • Recruited early faculty • Summer workshops for H. S. science teachers (NSF) • Active in American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) • Robert L. Wild Family Scholarship Fund • Passed away in 2001.

May 28, 2011 UCR Physics 50th Anniverarsary Walter T. Ogier Charles E. Roos Allan M. Russell

• From 1967‐97, was • Joined Pomona professor of physics at College/Claremont in 1960. Hobart and William Smith Was chairman. • Research in both solid Colleges in Geneva, NY. • Low temperature super‐fluid state and high energy • Was provost and dean. properties of Liq. He. physics. • Worked with Gerard • Passed away in 2009. • Professor Emeritus at O’Neill on space Vanderbilt Univ. colonization. • In 1979, donated land in • Passed away in 2011. Riverside for Andulka Park. Opened in 2009

May 28, 2011 UCR Physics 50th Anniverarsary Robert R. Hewitt Donald C. McCollum Joseph Callaway

• Low temperature physics‐ • Hired when campus • Theoretical physics‐quantum and magnetic glass systems was 3 years old; 4th solid state. (LaAl :Gd) physicist. 2 • Internationally recognized. • Distinguished Teaching • Pioneer in magnetic • Ph.D. under Nobel Laureate Award in 1978‐79. and quadrapole Eugene Wigner •Long‐serving Assoc. Dean resonance in metals. • One of prime architects of for the Physical Science • Produced 8 Ph.D. graduate program at UCR. Program students • Moved to LSU in 1967 as • Associate Dean for • Assoc. Dean for department chair. Graduate Division Research • Graduated 29 Ph.D. students at • NSF Faculty Fellowship •Dean of Graduate LSU. • Mr. Wizard/Open Houses Division. • Author of book: “The Quantum • Emeritus status since • Passed away in 1981 Theory of the Solid State (1991) 1992. • Passed away 1994. May 28, 2011 UCR Physics 50th Anniverarsary Andrew W. Lawson, Jr. Glen E. Everett

t• Studen of Prof. Lawson at U. Chicago. • Microwave spin resonance at low temperatures. • First chair of UCR Physics Dept. • Fermi surfaces, superconductor (1961) tunneling, solids at high pressure, • Solid state and high pressure physics. critical phenomena in magnetic • Previously chair of physics at Univ. systems, computer‐aided research. Chicago and Assoc. Director of • Developed year‐long microcomputer Institute of Metals. course for new Computer Science • 1965 UCR Faculty Research Lecturer program. • Graduated 31 Ph.D. students and • Interim Dean of new Engineering Chicago and 11 at UCR. School. • Passed away 1978. • Physics Dept. Chair. Passed away 2004. May 28, 2011 UCR Physics 50th Anniverarsary Peter Kaus Frederick W. Cummings Leon J. Bruner

• Elementary particle theory • Theory of super‐fluidity of • Student of Prof. Lawson at • Regge poles, liquid He. U. Chicago. phenomenology, quark • Coherence effects in EM • Solid state background but confinement, QCD. radiation‐Jaynes‐Cummings initiated biophysics at UCR. • Biophysics: biological clocks model cavity/QED. Electrical signals and nerve and circadian rhythm. •Biophysics, biological clocks. impulses. Biological • Relativistic train computer • Cell biology, membranes‐lipid bilayer graphics for Physics 7. • Non‐linear dynamics. membranes. • Past president of the Aspen • Helped develop Physics 7; • Leon passed away in 2003. Center for Physics. Space, Time and Relativity. • Emeritus status since 1994. • Emeritus status since 1994.

May 28, 2011 UCR Physics 50th Anniverarsary Walter H. Barkas Robert T. Poe Bipin R. Desai

Greg Crockett & Cambridge University Press Scotty The Robot

• Theoretical atomic scattering w/ • Elementary particle theory— • World’s leading Professors Callaway and Das. Theory Regge Pole theory, expert in the of atom‐molecule scattering. phenomenology. application of nuclear • Established the experimental • Strong interactions in two‐body emulsions for detecting particle physics research program at reactions. • Quark confinement. elementary particles. UCR with Walter Barkas. • Preformed research • Super string theory, • Serves as department chair 1976‐81 • Quark masses with SUSY‐GUT at LRL (later known as and initiated the UCR‐UCLA and field theory. LBNL) with Cyclotron Engineering Program. • Physics beyond the Standard and Bevatron. • Initiated the Energy Science model, top condensate models, • Passed away in 1969. Program at UCR and served as its neutrino masses and interactions, Director. Developed the “House and dark energy • Author of new Quantum Doctor” Program. Mechanics Book • Passed away in 1984. • Emeritus status since 2010. May 28, 2011 UCR Physics 50th Anniverarsary Eugen Simanek Nai‐Li Liu Michael Pollak

• Condensed Matter Theory • Studied with Prof. Orbach. • Condensed matter theory • Many‐body, optical Condensed matter theory. • Percolation theory applied processes, superconductivity, • Magnetism in solids, to electronic transport in phase transitions. ferromagnetism in amorphous solids, • Properties of granular insulators, super‐transferred “Coulomb Gap” in superconductors, tunneling hyperfine interactions, gas‐ amorphous semiconductors. phenomena, Josephson surface reaction dynamics • Hopping conduction in junctions. (Catalysis) glasses. • Emeritus status since 1994. • Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, • Work sited in Nobel 1970‐72 Lectures of Sir Nevill Mott • Emeritus status since 1994. and Philip Anderson (1977). • Emeritus status since 1992.

May 28, 2011 UCR Physics 50th Anniverarsary Benjamin C. Shen Anne Kernan

• Experimental high energy particle physics • Experimental high energy particle physics at the Bevatron ,w/ bubble and streamer at the Bevatron at LRL and SLAC w/ nuclear chambers, at ISR/PEP at SLAC w/ time‐ emulsions. projection chamber, at LEP/CERN w/ OPAL • Led UCR team at ISR/CERN in Charmed (Zo boson), at the LHC/CERN w/ CMS (Higgs Quark search. boson), and tSLAC w/ the BABAR detector • Led UCR DZero team Tevatron/Fermilab in (CP Violation). Top Quark detection. • UHE gamma ray astronomy w/ Milagro air‐ • Led US team at CERN in collaboration that shower array at LANL found the W+, W‐ and ZO gauge bosons‐ • Physics department chair (3 different Nobel Prize for collaboration leaders Carlo periods). Rubbia and Simon van der Meer in 1984. • Principle investigator for large HEP/DOE • Department chair, 1873‐76. grant ($1.5M) for over 10 years. • APS Councilor‐at‐Large, 1985‐89. • Over 600 publications. • Emeritus status since 1994. • Passed away 2007.

May 28, 2011 UCR Physics 50th Anniverarsary Scott’s Week 1974 John C. Nickel Douglas E. MacLaughlin • Double Bragg X‐ray scattering • Experimental condensed matter physics • Plasma Physics theory and experiment: • Magnetic resonance in exotic metals, resonance oscillation in hot non=uniform alloys and superconductors with “heavy plasmas, wave propagation in bounded fermion” electrons. Use both nuclear and and unbounded plasmas, magnetic field muon spin rotation techniques. resonance splitting. • NMR and SR studies on “non‐Fermi • Solar flare laboratory simulation, double liquids”. inverse pinch. • SR studies on “Colossal • Atomic physics: electron scattering and magnetoresistance” oxides.

polarization on CO, CO2. • Emeritus status since 2006. • Distinguished Teaching Award in 1970. • Developed many lecture demonstrations with Bob Wild and D. C. McCollum. • Emeritus status since 1994. May 28, 2011 UCR Physics 50th Anniverarsary Sun‐yiu Fung R. Stephen White • Experimental high energy particle physics: • Space physics at LLNL and Aerospace Corp. weak and strong interactions and • Identified trapped particles in Van Allen Belts. resonances. • Started astrophysics at UCR: gamma‐ray • Bubble chamber data (~1M photographs) astronomy w/ stratospheric balloons . from SLAC, LRL, BNL • Invented double scatter telescope to • Streamer chamber data from Bevatron, measured albedo neutrons leaving top of SLAC, AGS at BNL, ISR at CERN. atmosphere that decay to fill the Van Allen belts. • Heavy Ion Collisions at Bevalac/LRL, • Detected gamma rays from Crab and Vela AGS/BNL and RHIC/BNL to study “Quark‐ pulsars. gluon Plasma”. • Detected gamma rays from nuclear reactors on • Physics department chair: 1981‐86. Soviet spy satellites. • 2002 UCR Emeritus Faculty Research • 1981 UCR Faculty Research Lecturer Award • 2000 UCR Emeritus Faculty Research Award • Emeritus status since 1994 • Published three science/science policy books. • Emeritus status since 1992.

May 28, 2011 UCR Physics 50th Anniverarsary