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unusual facts about particle physicist



Aslı Erdoğan

She worked at CERN as a particle physicist from 1991 to 1993 and received an MSc in physics from Boğaziçi University as a result of her research there.

Frank Oppenheimer

Frank Friedman Oppenheimer (August 14, 1912 – February 3, 1985) was an American particle physicist, professor of physics at the University of Colorado, and the founder of the Exploratorium in San Francisco.

Ivan Aničin

Ivan Aničin, (born 25 March 1944 in Bor, Serbia, Yugoslavia) is Yugoslav and Serbian nuclear physicist, particle physicist, astrophysicist, and cosmologist, university Full Professor and Distinguished (teaching/research) Professor of scientific institutes in Belgrade (Serbia), Bristol (United Kingdom), Grenoble (France), and Munich (Germany).

Thomas Appelquist

Thomas Appelquist is a theoretical particle physicist who is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics at Yale University.


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Blue skies research

In 1980, British Petroleum (known as BP after 2000) established a blue skies research initiative called the Venture Research Unit, headed by particle physicist Donald Braben.

David R. Nygren

David Robert Nygren (born 30 December 1938) is a particle physicist known for his invention of the Time projection chamber.

Glen Rebka

In addition to his academic career he did much work as an experimental elementary-particle physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Heuer

Rolf-Dieter Heuer (born 1948), a German particle physicist and the Director General of CERN.

Ransom Stephens

As a particle physicist, Ransom Stephens worked on experiments at SLAC, Fermilab, CERN, and Cornell, discovered a new type of matter, and worked on the team that discovered the Top quark.

Timothy M. P. Tait

Tim Tait (born May 29, 1971 in Owen Sound, Canada) is an American/Canadian particle physicist, specializing in theoretical physics, elementary particles and theories of dark matter.