Sidney Drell
| Sidney Drell | |
|---|---|
| Born |
September 13, 1926 Atlantic City, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Died | December 21, 2016 (aged 90) Palo Alto, California, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | Stanford Linear Accelerator Center |
| Alma mater | University of Illinois |
| Thesis | Part I Magnetic internal conversion coefficient Part II Electrostatic scattering of neutrons Part III Anomalous magnetic moments of nucleons (1949) |
| Doctoral advisor | Sidney Dancoff |
| Doctoral students |
Roscoe Giles Heinz Pagels |
| Known for | Drell–Yan process |
| Notable awards | E. O. Lawrence Award (1972) Pomeranchuk Prize (1998) Enrico Fermi Award (2000) National Medal of Science (2011) |
Sidney David Drell (September 13, 1926 – December 21, 2016) was an American theoretical physicist and arms control expert. At the time of his death, he was professor emeritus at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) and senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Drell was a noted contributor in the fields of quantum electrodynamics and high-energy particle physics. The Drell–Yan process is partially named for him.
Born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Drell graduated from Atlantic City High School. He earned his undergraduate degree in physics from Princeton University in 1946, having been admitted at the age of 16. He was awarded a masters in physics in 1947 and received his PhD from the University of Illinois in 1949. He co-authored the textbooks Relativistic Quantum Mechanics and Relativistic Quantum Fields with James Bjorken. Drell was active as a scientific advisor to the U.S. government, and was a founding member of the JASON Defense Advisory Group. He was also on the board of directors of Los Alamos National Security, the company that operates the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He was an expert in the field of nuclear arms control and cofounder of the Center for International Security and Arms Control, now the Center for International Security and Cooperation. He was a Senior Fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution and an accomplished violinist. He was a trustee Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.
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