Lawrence Sulak (born August 29, 1944) is an American physicist, currently the David M. Myers Distinguished Professor at Boston University.[1][2][3] Some of Sulak's research includes Higgs detection at the Compact Muon Solenoid in the Large Hadron Collider, neutrino physics, astrophysics, and contributing work for the Monopole, Astrophysics and Cosmic Ray Observatory.[2]
Lawrence Sulak | |
|---|---|
| Born | August 29, 1944 |
| Alma mater | Carnegie Mellon University (B.A.) Princeton University (M.A., Ph.D.) |
| Awards | W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics (2018) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Particle physics |
| Thesis | A precise measurement of the K°₁ - K°₂ mass difference (1970) |
Early life and education
editSulak was born in 1944. He did a Bachelor of Arts at Carnegie Mellon University, and then his M.A. and Ph.D. from at Princeton University.[1] His dissertation is titled A precise measurement of the K°₁ - K°₂ mass difference.[4]
Career
editFollowing his PhD, Sulak's work in the early 1970s are described by Peter Galison in a history of neutral currents which appeared in Reviews of Modern Physics.[5]
Sulak is mentioned in the 1986 book Second Creation[6] on the history of modern particle physics by Robert Crease and Charles Mann. It opens with a description of being escorted by Sulak down to the experimental halls of the salt mine under Lake Erie in Ohio converted to a proton decay detector designed by Sulak and the rest of the Irvine Michigan Brookhaven collaboration.
Awards
editSome of Sulak's awards that he has received include:
References
edit- ^ a b "Lawrence R. Sulak". Boston University. 2023-07-11. Retrieved 2023-12-10.
- ^ a b "Lawrence Sulak". bu.edu. Archived from the original on 2017-06-14. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
- ^ "Lawrence Sulak". bu.edu. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
- ^ Sulak, Lawrence R. (1970). A precise measurement of the K°₁ - K°₂ mass difference (Thesis). Princeton - N.J: Princeton Univ.; Elementary Particle Lab. OCLC 890321976.
- ^ Galison, Peter (1983-04-01). "How the first neutral-current experiments ended". Reviews of Modern Physics. 55 (2): 477–509. doi:10.1103/RevModPhys.55.477. ISSN 0034-6861.
- ^ Crease, Robert P.; Mann, Charles C. (1996). The Second Creation. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0-8135-2177-0.
- ^ Rimer, Sara (November 6, 2017). "Larry Sulak Wins Top US Prize in Experimental Particle Physics". Retrieved 2018-08-06.
- ^ "W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics". aps.org. Retrieved 2018-08-06.
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