Bruce Winstein

Bruce Darrell Winstein ( born September 25, 1943 in Los Angeles, California, † 28 February 2011) was an American experimental physicist who dealt with elementary particle physics and cosmology.

Winstein studied at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA ) with a Bachelor 's degree in 1965 and in 1970 received his doctorate at Caltech. 1970 to 1972 he worked at the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich and then at the Enrico Fermi Institute at the University of Chicago, where he was assistant professor and in 1983 professor. He was there Samuel K. Allison Distinguished Service Professor and Director of the Kavli Center for Cosmological Physics. From 1990 he was a regular guest scientist at Fermilab and 1985/86 Visiting Professor at SLAC.

In 1999 he gave after 25 years by increasingly precise measurements in KTEV experiment ( for kaon at the Tevatron ) at Fermilab with colleagues the definitive proof of direct CP violation (simultaneously at CERN in the NA48 experiment and its predecessor NA31 ). Later he turned to cosmology and led the Quiet experiment in the Chilean Atacama desert to measure the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background ( CMB). Before moving to the cosmology he learned in a sabbatical at Princeton in the laboratory of Suzanne Staggs the CMB physics from scratch.

1983/84 he was in the initial phase of the Superconducting Super Collider Chairman Study Group.

In 2007 he was awarded the Panofsky Prize to Henry election and Italo Mannelli for the detection of direct CP violation. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1995), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2007) and Fellow of the American Physical Society. In 1999 he was Guggenheim Fellow. In 1976, he was the Arthur Holly Compton Lectures at the University of Chicago.

Winstein was a scenario writer and jazz lover and held at the University lectures on Michelangelo Antonioni. He was married and had two children. He died of cancer.

Writings

  • Jonathan L. Rosner: Kaon Physics. University of Chicago Press 2001
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