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Appendix D. Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
Appendix D. Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
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D Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff COMMITTEE MEMBERS Harold T Shapiro, Chair Dr.
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Dr. Dawson was recently chair of the American Physical Society's Division of Particle and Fields, the primary professional society for elementary particle physics, a position to which she was elected by her peers.
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154 R E V E A L I N G T H EH I D D E NN A T U R E O FS PA C E A N DTI M E Jonathan A Bagger Dr.
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Dr. Friedman is an expert in experimental particle physics and has served as head of the Physics Department and director of the Laboratory of Nuclear Science at MIT and on many advisory panels, including the joint Department of Energy/National Science Foundation High Energy Physics Advisory Panel, the Board of the University Research Association, the Board on Physics and Astronomy of the National Research Council, and as chair of the Scientific Policy Committee of the Superconducting Collider.
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He has also served on a number of advisory bodies, including the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Advisory Council and the Metropolitan Area Board of Directors for the Red Cross. He also was a member of the National Research Council's Burning Plasma Assess ment Committee.
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AP P E N D I XD 157 Takaaki Kajita Dr. Kajita is a professor of physics and director of the Research Center for Cosmic Neutrinos at the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research at the University of Tokyo.
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Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize. He has also served as chair of the American Physical Society's Division of Condensed Matter Physics.
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He was the chair of the National Research Council's Committee on Optical Science and Engineering, which published its report in 1998.
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Dr. Witten is a theoretical physicist whose solu tion of outstanding problems in string theory greatly advanced its status as one of the leading candidates for the grand unified theory of elementary particle physics.
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Watson Postdoctoral Fellow at IBM. He subsequently became an assistant professor at American University, later moving to Catholic University, and then joining the staff of the National Research Council in 1975.
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162 RE V E A L I N G T H EH I D D E NN A T U R E O FS PA C E A N DTI M E field beside the irregular galaxy Sextans-A using the Hubble Space Telescope. His mentors were Robbie Dohm-Palmer, University of Minnesota, and Mario Mateo, University of Michigan.
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