Nicholas P. Samios Explained

Nicholas P. Samios (born March 15, 1932, in NYC) is an American physicist and former director of the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York.[1]

Biography

He majored in physics at Columbia College of Columbia University, from which he graduated in 1953; he earned his PhD at Columbia in 1957. He worked on the Columbia faculty for three years before joining Brookhaven's physics department, where he was appointed laboratory director in May 1982.[2] A major achievement of his tenure was the construction of the RHIC, the first heavy-ion collider.[3] He stepped down as director in 1997 after a dispute on leaked radioactivity in the laboratory, but continued to work as a researcher.[4] In 2003 he became director of the RIKEN BNL Research Center.[1]

Scientific achievements

Samios has specialized in the physics of high-energy particles. He is especially known for his study of elementary particles, in particular for the discovery of the Omega minus particle in 1964 as postulated by Murray Gell-Mann and Yuval Ne'eman, as well as the first charmed baryon.[3] These discoveries have contributed to the understanding of the spectrum of particles and have carried to the formulation of Quantum Chromodynamics and the Standard Model of particle physics.[5]

Awards

Further reading

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Nicholas P. Samios. Biography . Physics History Network . AIP . 2018-10-17.
  2. Book: Neutrino Facilities Assessment Committee. Board on Physics and Astronomy. Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences. Neutrinos and Beyond: New Windows on Nature. 13 May 2003. National Academies Press. 978-0-309-08716-2. 76.
  3. Web site: Brookhaven Lab Names Former Director Nicholas Samios Senior Scientist Emeritus . Gettler . Joe . Brooklyn National Laboratory . 17 October 2014 . 20 July 2020.
  4. Web site: Lab Director In Dispute Steps Down . John T. McQuiston . The New York Times . 1997-03-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150527052718/https://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/08/nyregion/lab-director-in-dispute-steps-down.html . 2015-05-27.
  5. People . July–August 2002 . . CERN Courier . 42 . 6 . 34 . 20 July 2020.
  6. Web site: Nicholas P. Samios, 1980 . The Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award . . 20 July 2020.
  7. Web site: Physicist Nicholas Samios Awarded Gian Carlo Wick Gold Medal . McNulty Walsh . Karen . Genzer . Peter . Brooklyn National Laboratory . 4 June 2009 . 20 July 2020.