Ramond, Pierre, 1943-
Oral history interview with Pierre Ramond, 2021 April 13, 15 and 22.
Interview with Pierre Ramond, Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Florida. Ramond recounts childhood in Paris, he describes his familys experiences during World War II, and he explains that opportunities that led to his education in electrical engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He discusses his graduate degree in physics at Syracuse University to focus on general relativity and his first exposure to the earliest iterations of string theory. Ramond describes his work at Fermilab on Veneziano modelling, his postdoctoral research at Yale, and his subsequent work at Los Alamos. He describes Gell-Manns interest in grand unified theories and the influence of Ken Wilson. Ramond explains the excitement regarding the muon anomaly experiment at Fermilab, and he narrates his decision to join the faculty at the University of Florida. He explains how the departments stature has risen over the past forty years, and he reflects on his involvement with the superstring revolution in 1984. Ramond describes the difference between effective and fundamental theories in particle physics and he conveys the productive intellectual ferment at the annual Aspen conferences. He describes his service work on the faculty senate and he describes his leadership position at the APS during the discovery of the Higgs. Ramond explains why he thinks supersymmetry would have been detected at a completed SSC and he reflects on receiving the Dirac medal in 2020. At the end of the interview, he discusses Einsteins misgivings on quantum mechanics, he imagines how string theory might be testable, and he explains why he remains interested in CP violation.
Pierre Ramond is a Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Florida. Ramond completed his graduate studies in physics at Syracuse University and has conducted research at Fermilab, Yale University, and Los Alamos.
Gell-Mann, Murray
Ramond, Pierre, 1943-
Veneziano, G. (Gabriele)
Wilson, Kenneth G. (Kenneth Geddes), 1936-2013
American Physical Society
Aspen Center for Physics
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Los Alamos National Laboratory
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Syracuse University. Dept. of Physics.
University of Florida. Dept. of Physics.
Yale University
Electrical engineering
General relativity (Physics)
Grand unified theories (Nuclear physics)
Muons.
Particle physics. gtt
Quantum theory
String models.
Superconducting Super Collider
Superstring theories.
Supersymmetry
Vietnam War, 1961-1975
World War, 1939-1945
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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