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William Chinowsky is an American astrophysicist. He is a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley.[1]

Biography

Chinowsky received his A.B. and Ph.D. from Columbia University. He worked as a staff physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory before joining the Berkeley faculty in 1961. He served as a program director of the National Science Foundation from 1992 to 1996 and was affiliated with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.[1][2][3] He works in observational high-energy neutrino astrophysics.[4] Among his students were Carl Haber, a MacArthur Fellow known for his work in audio preservation, and Susan Cooper, professor at the University of Oxford.[5]

Chinowsky received two Guggenheim Fellowships, one in 1966 for experiments in elementary particle interactions,[6] and a second in 1978.[7] In 1987, he was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society for "contributions to the discovery of numerous elementary particles and the determination of their properties."[2]

References

  1. ^ a b "William Chinowsky (E) | UC Berkeley Physics". physics.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2022-06-01.
  2. ^ a b LBL Research Review. Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. 1985.
  3. ^ Amanda Solliday. "The November Revolution". symmetry magazine. Retrieved 2022-06-01.
  4. ^ "Smoot Group Cosmology". aether.lbl.gov. Retrieved 2022-06-01.
  5. ^ "In the Groove | Columbia College Today". www.college.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2022-06-01.
  6. ^ California (System), University of (1965). University Bulletin: A Weekly Bulletin for the Staff of the University of California. Office of Official Publications, University of California.
  7. ^ "William Chinowsky". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-06-01.
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