Sadoulet, Bernard.
Oral history interview with Bernard Sadoulet, 2020 November 19.
In this interview, Bernard Sadoulet, Professor of the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley, discusses his time working in France as well as the study of dark matter. He discusses getting his Masters degree in theoretical physics at the University of Paris in Orsay, and how this background was beneficial for his interest in experimental physics. Sadoulet speaks about his time working at CERN as part of the official committee managing the collaboration between Europe and the Soviet Union. He also details his work on the UA1 experiment while at CERN. He describes his role in the Wise Men Committee, and there task of producing a report about civil nuclear programs in France. Sadoulet discusses his time as a postdoc at Berkeley and his discovery of the Chi states. He speaks about his growing interest in dark matter in the 1980s and the interest he had in the possibility of building detectors to search for dark matter particles in the halo of our galaxy. He describes his collaborations with Blas Cabrera Navarro at the Center for Particle and Astrophysics. Lastly, he reflects upon how to meaningfully involve the public in science.
French physicist. Docteur s̈ sciences, physics, Paris-Orsay University (1971). Professional experience includes: Professor of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley, Director of the Center for Particle Astrophysics, Director of the UC system-wide Institute for Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (INPAC). Elected Member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (from Physics @ Berkeley, https://physics.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/bernard-sadoulet).
Cabrera, Blas.
Mitterrand, Franȯis, 1916-1996
Peyrou, Charles, 1918-
Sadoulet, Bernard.
Ting, S. C. C. (Samuel Chao-chung), 1936-
Ecole polytechnique (France)
European Organization for Nuclear Research
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Universit ̌Paris-Sud. Centre d'Orsay
University of California, Berkeley
Dark matter (Astronomy)
Nuclear energy
Weak interactions (Nuclear physics)
Chi states
UA1 Experiment
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Zierler, David, 1979-, interviewer.
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