Tomasz Skwarnicki is a Polish-American physicist and professor at Syracuse University. He is known for his research on gravitational wave detectors, experimental elementary particle physics, the Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment (LHCb), and pentaquarks.[2][3]
Tomasz Skwarnicki | |
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| Born | January 1, 1958[1] |
| Alma mater | Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences Jagiellonian University |
| Known for | pentaquarks |
| Awards | Fellow of American Physical Society (2001) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Elementary particle physics High energy physics |
| Institutions | Syracuse University DESY Southern Methodist University CERN |
| Thesis | A Study of the Radiative Cascade Transitions Between the Upsilon-prime and Upsilon Resonances (1986) |
| Website | artsandsciences |
Education
editSkwarnicki obtained a M.Sc. in Physics from Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland in 1982. He joined the Institute of Nuclear Physics in Kraków to earn a PhD in 1986.[1][4]
Awards
editSkwarnicki began his academic career at the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) in Hamburg, Germany and moved to the US in 1988.[1] In 1989, he joined the Department of Physics at Syracuse University as an assistant professor. He joined faculty at Southern Methodist University in 1992 while working at the Superconducting Super Collider in Dallas.[5] He moved back to Syracuse in 1995.[4]
Skwarnicki was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2001.[6]
References
edit- ^ a b c "Skwarnicki, Tomasz". www.poles.org. Retrieved 24 May 2024.
From: "Who's Who in Polish America" 1st Edition 1996-1997, Boleslaw Wierzbianski editor; Bicentennial Publishing Corporation, New York, NY, 1996.
- ^ "Tomasz Skwarnicki". Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 24 May 2024.
- ^ "Exotic States at LHC, FPCP13" (PDF). Tomasz Skwarnicki. Retrieved 24 May 2024.
- ^ a b "CV" (PDF). Retrieved 24 May 2024.
- ^ "Tomasz Skwarnicki US LUA" (PDF).
- ^ "APS Fellow Archive". www.aps.org. American Physical Society. Retrieved 15 May 2021.