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Robert Eugene Marshak
Robert Eugene Marshak
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to nuclear en c! elementary particle physics as his primary area of research.
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(Bob Marshak maintainec! a love for en c!
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Marshak wrote his dissertation on energy procluction in white dwarf stars, completing his Ph.D. degree in 1939 at the age of twenty-two.
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on cleveloping racier at the MIT Racliation Laboratory. In 1943-44 he was at the Montreal Atomic Energy Laboratory (which later became the Chalk River Laboratory)
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Scientists. Driven by a desire to help bring about world peace and prosperity and with an unclerstancling of the unique role that science shouIc!
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on charge inclepenclence in multiple plan production, X rays from pi-mesic atoms, en c! the meson theory of nuclear forces.
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Ryan. Marshak's most significant scientific contribution argu ably was the proposal in 1957 of the V - A theory of weak interactions in collaboration with George Suciarshan.
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The first of what was to become a series of annual Rochester conferences was hell! in December of 1950.
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Bob Marshak hac! to insist that those who hac!
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as secretary of the Commission on High Energy Physics of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics. Not one to slight the promotion of science in the Uniter!
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PRESIDENT OF CITY COLLEGE ( 1970-79) By 1969 the venerable CCNY of Bob Marshak's youth was in the throes of a revolution.
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With the help of a major National Science Foundation clevelopment grant, the groundwork for the transformation of the physics clepartment from a procligiously successful unclergracluate teaching operation to a research-active Ph.D. department hac!
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succession he createc! a major Center for the Performing Arts, an Urban Legal Studies Program, the Center for Biomeclical Education, en c!
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with Hans Bethe a conference on "American Energy Choices Before the Year 2000." At City College itself, Bob Marshak, motivates! by his social conscience en c!
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Bob proposed tests of the SU(IO) grand unification theory by studying neutron-antineutron oscillations in the nucleus, and by looking for finite mass Majorana neutrinos.
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international community, Bob Marshak organizer! several memorable physics meetings at VPI en c!
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for the remaining months of his life, he worker! intensely on his last book Conceptual Foundations of Modern Particle Physics (1993~.
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, and, upon his death, with the book A Gift of Prophecy-Essays in Celebration of the Life of Robert Eugene Marshak (ecI.
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human compassion." In spite of these tributes en c! Bob Marshak's immense achievements, his life was sometimes punctuates!
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In A Gift of Prophecy. Essays in Celebration of the Life of Robert Eugene Marshak, ed.
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91:239. The internal temperature of white dwarf stars.
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Ryan. Theory of Weak Interactions in Particle Physics.
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132:268. 1993 Conceptual Foundations of Modern Particle Physics.
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