Research Interests

Study of neutrino oscillations using a neutrino beam created at Fermilab in Illinois and an underground detector in northern Minnesota 730 km away. Recent evidence from the Super Kamiokande detector in Japan strongly suggests that neutrinos oscillate (i.e., change from one flavor into another as they travel through space) and hence have mass. The experiment (MINOS) should provide a definitive answer as to whether neutrinos do actually oscillate and, if so, will be able to measure oscillation mode and oscillation parameters. The work of this group is supported by the National Science Foundation.

• Experimental Particle Physics 
  
• Neutrino Oscillations (MINOS)

Career History

• A.B., 1957, Harvard University
• Ph.D., 1961, University of California at Berkeley 
• Physicist, Lawrence Radiation Laboratory (now LBNL), 1961-64, and 1966 
• National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, 1964-65
• Visiting Scientist, CERN, Geneva Switzerland, 1964 and 1973-74 
• Visiting Scientist, College de France, 1965 
• Scientific Associate, CERN, 1980-81 
• Deputy Director, Superconducting Super Collider Central Design Group 1984-89
• Assistant Professor of Physics, Stanford, 1966
• Associate Professor of Physics, Stanford, 1968
• Professor of Physics, Stanford, 1974
• Emeritus Professor of Physics, Stanford, 2010
  

Honors

• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow, 1968-72 
• Fellow of theAmerican Physical Society, 1971 
• John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, 1973-74 
• Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching, 1979 
• Alexander von Humboldt Senior American Scientist, 1980-81 
• Chair, High Energy Physics Advisory Panel (HEPAP), 1990-1996
• Stanley G. Wojcicki Chair in Physics endowed, 2010
• JINR Pontecorvo Prize, 2011