Milton Slaughter
| Milton Dean Slaughter | |
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| Born | New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Citizenship | USA |
| Alma mater |
University of New Orleans (UNO) (Ph.D. 1974) Louisiana State University in New Orleans [1] (B.S. 1971) (Now known as UNO) |
| Known for | Elementary Particles and Quantum Field Theory Non-Perturbative Elementary Particle and Nuclear Physics, STEM Education for Underrepresented Minorities and Women Detonation Theory and Applications Shock Wave and Dimensional Analysis Physics |
| Awards | Nomination for the LANL Distinguished Performance Award Fellow, American Physical Society Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields |
Science, Technology,Engineering, Mathematics Education (STEM); |
| Institutions |
University of Maryland, College Park Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) of the University of California University of New Orleans Florida International University |
| Doctoral advisors | (PostDoctoral) Prof. Sadao Oneda (University of Maryland, College Park) Richard Slansky (Los Alamos National Laboratory) |
Science, Technology,Engineering, Mathematics Education (STEM);
Quantum Field Theory and Elementary Particles;
Nuclear Physics; and
Milton Dean Slaughter is an American theoretical and phenomenological physicist and Visiting Professor of Physics at Florida International University. Slaughter was a Visiting Associate Professor of Physics in the Center for Theoretical Physics, University of Maryland, College Park while on sabbatical from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) of the University of California from 1984–1985. He is also Chair Emeritus and University Research Professor of Physics Emeritus at the University of New Orleans (UNO). Prior to joining UNO as Chair of the Physics Department, he was a Staff Physicist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory of the University of California.
Before coming to LANL, Slaughter was the first African-American postdoc at the Center for Theoretical Physics, University of Maryland, College Park.
In 1988, Slaughter was appointed by Nobel Laureate Abdus Salam as a member of the First Council of the Bouchet Institute/ICTP and also a member of its Executive Committee.
Slaughter was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was awarded a full scholarship to Columbia College, Columbia University; while on probation from Columbia, Slaughter enlisted in the USAF Security Service, where he worked as an interpreter from 1966 to 1970.
Slaughter was a postdoc at the Center for Theoretical Physics, University of Maryland, College Park from 1974 to 1976, and a postdoc in the Elementary Particles and Field Theory Group of the Theoretical Division Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) from 1976 to 1977.
Slaughter's career includes more than twenty-two years of administrative service, refereed articles in top-rated journals, refereed proceedings, seven book chapters, and more than fifty invited national and international presentations.
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