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Sidney Drell
American physicist (1926–2016) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sidney David Drell (September 13, 1926 – December 21, 2016) was an American theoretical physicist[2] and arms control expert.[3]
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Born | (1926-09-13)September 13, 1926 |
Died | December 21, 2016(2016-12-21) (aged 90) Palo Alto, California, U.S. |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Princeton University University of Illinois |
Known for | Drell–Yan process |
Children | 3, including Persis[1] |
Awards | E. O. Lawrence Award (1972) Pomeranchuk Prize (1998) Enrico Fermi Award (2000) Heinz Award for Public Policy (2005) National Medal of Science (2011) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics |
Institutions | Stanford Linear Accelerator Center |
Thesis | Part I Magnetic internal conversion coefficient Part II Electrostatic scattering of neutrons Part III Anomalous magnetic moments of nucleons (1949) |
Doctoral advisor | Sidney Dancoff |
Doctoral students | James Bjorken Steven Frautschi Roscoe Giles Robert Jaffe Heinz Pagels Joel Primack |
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At the time of his death, he was professor emeritus at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) and senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Drell was a noted contributor in the fields of quantum electrodynamics and high-energy particle physics. The Drell–Yan process, which was used to discover the Higgs boson, is partially named for him.[2]