Peter Demos

For the Australian Olympic basketball player, see Peter Demos (basketball).

Peter T. Demos (July 18, 1918 – September 18, 2012) was a professor in the Department of Physics and the Laboratory for Nuclear Science at MIT.^[1] A native of Peterborough, Ontario, Demos attended Peterborough Collegiate and Vocational School and Queen's University, and received a Ph.D. in Physics from MIT in 1951.^[2] He was a founder and former director of the Bates Linear Accelerator at MIT^[3][4] and served as advisor on nuclear science to John F. Kennedy.^[5]

Peter T. Demos
Born	(1918-07-18)July 18, 1918 Toronto, Canada
Died	September 18, 2012(2012-09-18) (aged 94) Belmont, Massachusetts
Education	Queen's University MIT
Spouse	Elizabeth Demos
Scientific career
Institutions	MIT
Thesis	Design and Properties of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Linear Electron Accelerator
Doctoral advisor	Arthur F. Kip John C. Slater

Work

• Demos, Peter T. (1951). Design and Properties of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Linear Electron Accelerator (Ph.D. thesis). Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
• Demos, P. T.; Kip, A. F.; Slater, J. C. (1952). "The M.I.T. Linear Electron Accelerator". Journal of Applied Physics. 23 (1): 53–65. Bibcode:1952JAP....23...53D. doi:10.1063/1.1701978.
• Dow, K.; et al. (1988). "Longitudinal Response Functions and Sum Rules for Quasielastic Electron Scattering from ³H and ³He". Phys. Rev. Lett. 61 (15): 1706–1709. Bibcode:1988PhRvL..61.1706D. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.61.1706. PMID 10038875.
• US 3845734, Demos, Peter T., "Apparent wind indicator adapted to establish optimum wind direction relative to the sail of a sailboat", issued 5 November 1974

• Demos, Peter (9 October 2012). "Nuclear physicist Peter T. Demos dies at 94". MIT News Office. Sarah H. Wright. Retrieved 9 October 2012.