Taylor, Richard Edward, 1929-2018
Richard E. Taylor papers, 1964-1992.
A. Correspondence, publications, reports, logbooks, photographs, presentations, videotapes. B. Subjects include the design and construction of SLAC End Station A (ESA), Beam Switchyard (BSY) and spectrometers, as well as development of SLAC Group A experiments. Lab books and experimental data for multiple projects including documentation on Elastic and Inelastic Scattering research performed at ESA, including experiments 4A, 4B, which formed part of the experimental program which resulted in the Taylor, Kendall, Friedman 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics. Records on the organization of the Lepton Photon Symposium held at SLAC August 1989. Records of the S.S.C. (Superconducting Super Collider) Site Committee. Correspondence and Reports of the KAON (Kaon, Antiproton, Other hadron and Neutrino) Factory in Vancouver, Canada.
Education: B.Sc. 1950; M.Sc. 1952, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. Ph.D. 1962, Stanford University. Professional academic history: Boursier, Laboratoire de l'Accľřateur linǎre, Orsay, France, 1958-1961. Physicist, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, California, 1961-1962. Experimental Physicist, SLAC, Stanford, 1962-1968. Associate Professor, SLAC, Stanford, 1968-1970. Professor, SLAC, Stanford, 1970-present. Associate Director, Research Division, SLAC, Stanford, 1982-1986. Lewis M. Terman Professor, SLAC, Stanford. Awards and honors: Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award, 1982. W.K.H. Panofsky Prize, 1989. Nobel Prize in Physics, 1990. Fellow, Guggenheim Foundation, 1971-1972. Fellow, American Physical Society. Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science. Fellow, Royal Society of Canada. Fellow, Royal Society of London. Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Member, Canadian Association of Physicists. Foreign Associate, National Academy of Science. Research areas: Experimental particle physics, electron scattering; engaged in the H1 experiment at the HERA electron-positron collider in Hamburg, Germany; gravitational wave research and space-based studies of x-ray and gamma-ray astronomy.
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center -- Administration.
Nobel Prizes.
Scattering (Physics) -- Research
Spectrometer.
Superconducting Super Collider.
Logs (records). aat aat
Photographs. aat
Video tapes aat
Physicists.
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. Research Division.
Stanford University -- Faculty.
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