Tomasz Skwarnicki
Polish-American particle physicist at Syracuse University
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Tomasz Skwarnicki is a Polish-American physicist and professor at Syracuse University. He is known for his research on gravitational wave detectors, experimental elementary particle physics, the Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment (LHCb), and pentaquarks.[2][3]
Tomasz Skwarnicki | |
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| Born | January 1, 1958[1] |
| Alma mater | Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences Jagiellonian University |
| Known for | pentaquarks |
| Awards | Fellow of American Physical Society (2001) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Elementary particle physics High energy physics |
| Institutions | Syracuse University DESY Southern Methodist University CERN |
| Thesis | A Study of the Radiative Cascade Transitions Between the Upsilon-prime and Upsilon Resonances (1986) |
| Website | artsandsciences |
Education
Skwarnicki obtained a M.Sc. in Physics from Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland in 1982. He joined the Institute of Nuclear Physics in Kraków to earn a PhD in 1986.[1][4]
Awards
Skwarnicki began his academic career at the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) in Hamburg, Germany and moved to the US in 1988.[1] In 1989, he joined the Department of Physics at Syracuse University as an assistant professor. He joined faculty at Southern Methodist University in 1992 while working at the Superconducting Super Collider in Dallas.[5] He moved back to Syracuse in 1995.[4]
Skwarnicki was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2001.[6]