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Andrew Sessler - Wikipedia

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Andrew Marienhoff Sessler (December 11, 1928 – April 17, 2014) was an American physicist, academic (University of California, Berkeley), former director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (1973–1980), humanitarian and former president (1998) of the American Physical Society.^[1]

Biography

Sessler was born in New York City in 1928.^[2] He was educated at Harvard University (B.A. in mathematics) and Columbia University (Ph.D. in physics)^[3] with dissertation Hyperfine structure of ³He.^[4] From 1954 to 1959, he was a member of the faculty at Ohio State University before moving to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory where he served as Lab Director in 1973-80.

His areas of expertise were the physics of particle accelerators, particle physics and plasma physics. In addition to accelerator physics, he also published theoretical work on quantum-theoretical statistical mechanics, atomic physics and superfluidity. Sessler was also active in the study group of the National Academy of Sciences of the long-term effects of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and in an initiative group of APS against landmines. Sessler was a member of the American Committee for Peace in Chechnya.

In 1970, he became an Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award laureate. On January 13, 2014, Sessler and Allen J. Bard were awarded the Enrico Fermi Award.^[5]

Sessler lived in Oakland, California.^[6] He died in 2014 after a long illness.

Books

Sessler, Andrew M., ed. (1990). Beam Dynamics Issues of High-Luminosity Asymmetric Collider Rings. American Institute of Physics. ISBN 9780883187678..
Pellegrini, Claudio; Sessler, Andrew M., eds. (31 January 1995). The Development of Colliders. Springer. ISBN 9781563963490.
Sessler, Andrew; Wilson, Edmund (2007). Engines of Discovery: A Century of Particle Accelerators. World Scientific. ISBN 9789812700704.^[7] Sessler, Andrew (2014). 2nd edition. ISBN 978-981-4417-19-8; pbk{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)

References

^ "Andrew Sessler 1928-2014". American Physical Society. 21 April 2014. Retrieved 26 April 2014.
^ "Andrew Sessler, 2013". U.S. Department of Energy. 8 April 2014. Retrieved 26 April 2014.
^ "In Memoriam: Andrew Sessler, Former Laboratory Director, Acclaimed Physicist and Humanitarian". Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. 18 April 2014. Retrieved 26 April 2014.
^ Sessler, A. M. (1953). Hyperfine structure of ³He. Columbia University Libraries (Thesis).
^ "President Obama Names Scientists Bard and Sessler as Enrico Fermi Award Recipients" DOE Press Release: Jan 13, 2014.
^ Thomas, Jeremy (18 April 2014). "Former Berkeley lab director Sessler dies at 85". San Jose Mercury News. Retrieved 26 April 2014.
^ Suller, Victor P. "Review of Engines of Discovery: A Century of Particle Accelerators by Andrew Sessler and Edmund Wilson" (PDF). Journal of Synchrotron Radiation. 15: 109–110. doi:10.1107/S0909049507052521.

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