Blas Cabrera

Blas Cabrera ( born September 21, 1946 in Paris) is an American physicist who is engaged in experimental elementary particle physics.

Cabrera studied at the University of Virginia (Bachelor 1968), where his father Nicolás Cabrera ( 1913-1989 ), a Spanish physicist who went during the Franco regime into exile, since 1952 professor was ( as of 1971 he was at the Autonomous University of Madrid). Cabrera received his doctorate in 1975 at Stanford University. He remained at Stanford University, where he was an assistant professor in 1981, associate professor in 1984 and professor in 1991. 1996 to 1999 he was Chairman of the Department of Physics there.

Cabrera has long sought magnetic monopoles and also reported on an event on the night of February 14, 1982, which he interpreted as magnetic monopole, but remained controversial. The research group of Cabrera won it considerable financial support for an improved search that was discontinued due to lack of success now.

He then dealt with the search for dark matter. He is co - spokesperson of the CDMS ( Cryogenic Dark Matter Search ) experiment searching for WIMPs. The detector is located in the Soudan mine in northern Minnesota.

Cabrera is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. For 2013, the program the Panofsky Prize was awarded.

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