Ferbel, Thomas
Oral history interview with Thomas Ferbel, 2020 June 15.
In this interview, Thomas Ferbel, professor of physics emeritus at the University of Rochester, discusses his life and career. Ferbel recounts his childhood in wartime Europe, and he describes the circumstances leading to his familys emigration to New York. He describes his developing interest in physics at Queens College, and he explains his graduate work at Yale and his work in high energy physics at Brookhaven. Ferbel discusses his research under the supervision of Jack Sandweiss and Horace Taft. He describes his decision to join the faculty at Rochester and he explains his research agenda in bubble chamber analysis, pion exchange phenomenology, among other projects in high energy physics. Ferbel discusses his work at CERN and Fermilab, and he explains the development of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and the role of advanced computation on the field. He describes his work for the design group for the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) project and conveys his enthusiasm for the project while it remained in progress. At the end of interview, Ferbel describes his most recent work for the U.S. Large Hadron Collider program and he shares his views on what the future of high energy physics might hold.
American physicist. Ph.D. physics, Yale University (1963). Professional experience includes: postdoctoral position, Yale University; from assistant professor of physics to professor, associate dean for graduate studies at College of Arts and Sciences, University of Rochester (1965-1991); visiting appointment at Fermilab (1971-1972), European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) (1980-1981), Supercollider Design Group at Lawrence BL (1989-1990), Laboratoire de l'Accľřateur Linǎire (LAL) Orsay (1995), the Heisenberg Max Planck Institute (1995-1996), University of Mainz (2001 and 2002), University of Freiburg (2002) and Imperial College, London (2002-2003); manager, U.S. Program of Operations for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN (2004-2008).
Ferbel, Thomas
Sandweiss, Jack H.
Taft, Horace Dwight, 1925-1983
Brookhaven National Laboratory.
European Organization for Nuclear Research
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Queens College (New York, N.Y.)
University of Rochester.
Yale University
Bubble chambers.
Particles (Nuclear physics)
Pion-pion interactions
Quantum chromodynamics
Superconducting Super Collider
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Zierler, David, 1979-, interviewer.
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American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA