William Chinowsky
American astrophysicist
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William Chinowsky is an American astrophysicist. He is a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley.[1]
William Chinowsky | |
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| Citizenship | United States |
| Alma mater | Columbia University B.A. (1949), and Ph.D. (1955) |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (1966, 1978) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Astrophysics |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
Biography
Chinowsky received his A.B. and Ph.D. from Columbia University. He worked as a staff physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory before joining the Berkeley faculty in 1961. He served as a program director of the National Science Foundation from 1992 to 1996 and was affiliated with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.[1][2][3] He works in observational high-energy neutrino astrophysics.[4] Among his students were Carl Haber, a MacArthur Fellow known for his work in audio preservation, and Susan Cooper, professor at the University of Oxford.[5]
Chinowsky received two Guggenheim Fellowships, one in 1966 for experiments in elementary particle interactions,[6] and a second in 1978.[7] In 1987, he was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society for "contributions to the discovery of numerous elementary particles and the determination of their properties."[2]