Sam Treiman
Physicist, Academic
1925 – 1999
Who was Sam Treiman?
Sam Bard Treiman was an American theoretical physicist who produced important research in the fields of cosmic rays, quantum physics, plasma physics and gravity physics. He made major contributions to the understanding of the weak interaction and he and his students are credited with developing the so-called standard model of elementary particle physics. He was a professor of physics at Princeton University, a member of the National Academy of Sciences and member of the JASON Defense Advisory Group. He was a student of Enrico Fermi and John Alexander Simpson Jr. Treiman published numerous articles on quantum mechanics, plasmas, gravity theory, condensed matter and the history of physics.
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- Born
- May 27, 1925
Chicago - Also known as
- Sam Bard Treiman
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Northwestern University
- PhD, University of Chicago
Physics
( - 1952)
- Employment
- Princeton University
- Lived in
- Princeton
(1952 - 1999/11/30)
- Princeton
- Died
- Nov 30, 1999
New York
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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