Thomas Appelquist, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Thomas Appelquist

American physicist

Date of Birth: 01-Nov-1941

Place of Birth: Emmetsburg, Iowa, United States

Profession: physicist, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Thomas Appelquist

  • Thomas Appelquist (born 1941) is a theoretical particle physicist who is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics at Yale University.He received his bachelor's degree from Illinois Benedictine College and his Ph.D.
  • in 1968 from Cornell University with thesis Parametric Representations of Renormalized Feynman Amplitudes.
  • In 1970, he joined the faculty at Harvard University.
  • In 1975, he moved to Yale and was appointed Professor of Physics in 1976.
  • From 1983 until 1989, he served as Chairman of the Yale Department of Physics.
  • He served as Director of the Division of Physical Sciences and Engineering from 1990 to 1993.
  • In 1991, he was named Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics, and from 1993 to 1998 he served as Dean of the Yale Graduate School. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the recipient of a Senior U.S.
  • Scientist award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
  • In 1997, he was awarded the J.J.
  • Sakurai Prize of the American Physical Society for his work on charmonium and the de-coupling of heavy particles.From 1993 to 1996, he served as President of the Aspen Center for Physics.
  • He has served on many advisory committees for the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy and the American Physical Society.
  • From 1989 to 1993, he was a member of the Scientific Policy Committee of the Superconducting Supercollider (SSC) Laboratory.
  • At Yale, during the 1992-1993 academic year, he served on the faculty/trustee Presidential Search Committee.
  • From 1999-2001, he chaired the committee of the National Research Council that prepared an Overview of the field of physics as the culmination of the NRC survey “Physics in a New Era”.
  • From 2001-2006, he served as Chairman of the Board of the Aspen Center for Physics.
  • He chairs the Science Council of the Jefferson National Laboratory in Newport News, Virginia.
  • His research has focused on the theory of elementary particles, including the strong interactions and electroweak unification.

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