Lee Grodzins

Lee Grodzins (born July 10, 1926) is an American professor emeritus of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). After groundbreaking work as a researcher at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Grodzins joined the faculty of MIT, where he taught physics for nearly four decades. He was also head of R&D for Niton Corporation, which developed devices to detect dangerous contaminants and contraband. He has written more than 150 technical papers and holds more than 50 US patents.

Grodzins was born in Lowell, Massachusetts. He graduated with a BS degree in engineering in 1946 from the University of New Hampshire. He began his career with General Electric as an assistant in the nuclear physics group at their research laboratory in Schenectady, New York. He earned his Ph.D in physics at Purdue University in 1954 and taught for a year afterwards at Purdue. His sister Anne Grodzins Lipow was a librarian and library science expert, and his sister Ethel Grodzins Romm is an author and Co-Chair of the Lyceum Society.

From 1955 to 1958, Grodzins was a researcher with the nuclear physics group at Brookhaven National Laboratory, probing the properties of the nuclei of atoms. In 1956, together with Maurice Goldhaber and Andrew Sunyar, Grodzins performed an experiment that determined that neutrinos have negative helicity. This work was important in our understanding of the weak interaction. Grodzins joined the faculty of the Physics department of MIT in 1959 and was a Professor of Physics there from 1966 to 1998. In 1985, he carried out the first computer axial tomographic experiment using synchrotron radiation.

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