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William Chinowsky

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William Chinowsky
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma materColumbia University B.A. (1949), and Ph.D. (1955)
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship (1966, 1978)
Scientific career
FieldsAstrophysics
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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

Biography

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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

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  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.