Clyde Wiegand

Clyde E. Wiegand (* May 23, 1915 in Long Beach ( Washington); † 5 July 1996 in Oakland ( California)) was an American experimental particle physicists.

Wiegand attended school in Oakland and Salem ( Oregon) and studied from 1933 at the Willamette University. He earned a bachelor's degree until 1940, when he casually as a radio technician working at a local station, and his training as a physicist did not begin until 1941 at the University of California, Berkeley, where he directly Ernest O. Lawrence introduced to at the cyclotron working. Lawrence sent him back first to the university, but gave him in December 1941 for a job in his laboratory. Initially he worked at the cyclotron used for isotope separation. 1943 to 1946 he worked in the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos as a member of Emilio Segrè 's group, where he built electronic amplifier for alpha-particle detectors. After the war, he was back at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he received his doctorate in 1950 at Segrè. He remained at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he was officially retired in 1980, but there was more scientifically active.

Wiegand was there for the team of Owen Chamberlain, Emilio Segre, Thomas Ypsilanti, 1955 at the Bevatron discovered the antiproton. In particular, his expertise in the construction of the counting electronics was for the success of the experiment is crucial. Chamberlain and Segrè received the Nobel Prize for it in 1959. Wiegand also installed at that time detector electronics at CERN under construction. In the 1970s he focused on kaonic atoms ( normal nuclei with bound kaons instead of electrons).

He was married in 1942 and had a son and two daughters.