Accelerator physicist

Short description: Physicist who contributes to the design, operation and optimization of particle accelerators.

An accelerator physicist[1] is a scientist who contributes to the field of Accelerator physics, involving the fundamental physical mechanisms underlying beams of charged particles accelerated to high energies and the structures and materials needed to do so. In addition to developing and applying such basic theoretical models, an accelerator physicist contributes to the design, operation and optimization of particle accelerators.

## Significant accelerator physicists

* John Cockcroft[2]
* Ernest Courant[3]
* Helen T. Edwards[4]
* Donald William Kerst[5]
* Ernest Lawrence[6]
* Carlo Rubbia[7]
* Ernest Rutherford[8]
* Andrew Sessler[9]
* Robert Van de Graaff[10]
* Simon van der Meer[11]
* Ernest Walton[12]
* Rolf Widerøe[13]

## See also

Accelerator physics

List of particle accelerators

## References

1. ↑ "Engines of Discovery A Century of Particle Accelerators https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/6272
2. ↑ "John Cockroft". https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1951/cockcroft/facts/.
3. ↑ Peters, Erika. "Happy 100th Birthday to Ernest Courant". https://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=217140.
4. ↑ "Helen T. Edwards — MacArthur Foundation". macfound.org. https://www.macfound.org/fellows/332/.
5. ↑ Anderson, Bethany (June 11, 2013). ""A Very Bold and Original Device": Donald Kerst and the Betatron". University of Illinois. http://archives.library.illinois.edu/blog/donald-kerst-and-the-betatron/.
6. ↑ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1939". https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1939/lawrence/facts/.
7. ↑ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1984". https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1984/rubbia/facts/.
8. ↑ "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1908". https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1908/rutherford/facts/.
9. ↑ "Andrew Sessler 1928-2014" (in en). https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/updates/andrewsessler.cfm.
10. ↑ "Van de Graaf, Robert Jemison, 1901-1967". American Institute of Physics. https://history.aip.org/phn/11610027.html.
11. ↑ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1984". The Nobel Foundation. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1984/index.html.
12. ↑ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1951". https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1951/walton/facts/.
13. ↑ Livingston, M. S. (1980). Marton, L.. ed. "Early history of particle accelerators". Advances in Electronics and Electron Physics (Academic Press) 50: 24. doi:10.1016/S0065-2539(08)61061-6. ISBN 9780080577159. Bibcode: 1980AEEP...50....1L. https://books.google.com/books?id=27c1WOjCBX4C&pg=PA24.

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