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
Born (1958-01-01) January 1, 1958 (age 66)[1]
Alma materInstitute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Jagiellonian University
Known forpentaquarks
AwardsFellow of American Physical Society (2001)
Scientific career
FieldsElementary particle physics
High energy physics
InstitutionsSyracuse University
DESY
Southern Methodist University
CERN
ThesisA Study of the Radiative Cascade Transitions Between the Upsilon-prime and Upsilon Resonances (1986)
Websiteartsandsciences.syracuse.edu/people/faculty/skwarnicki-tomasz/

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Skwarnicki 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

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Skwarnicki 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

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "Tomasz Skwarnicki". Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 24 May 2024.
  3. ^ "Exotic States at LHC, FPCP13" (PDF). Tomasz Skwarnicki. Retrieved 24 May 2024.
  4. ^ a b "CV" (PDF). Retrieved 24 May 2024.
  5. ^ "Tomasz Skwarnicki US LUA" (PDF).
  6. ^ "APS Fellow Archive". www.aps.org. American Physical Society. Retrieved 15 May 2021.
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