Ernest M. Henley

Mark Ernest Henley ( born June 10, 1924 in Germany ) is an American theoretical physicist who deals among other things with nuclear physics.

Henley made ​​1944 his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at the City College of New York. He was then from 1946 to 1948 as an electrical engineer at Airborne Instruments Laboratory. From 1948 to 1951 he conducted research at Stanford University. In 1952 he received his doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley. From 1952 to 1954 he was Fellow and Lecturer Jewett at Columbia University. From 1954 he was assistant professor at the University of Washington, where he became professor in 1961. From 1979 to 1987 he was dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and in 1990/91 Director of the Institute for Theoretical Nuclear Physics. Since 1995 he is a professor emeritus.

Henley calculated with Lawrence Wilets 1976, the effects of parity violation for measurements in atomic physics (parity non conservation in Bi and Tl atom, Physical Review A, Bd.14, 1976, S.1411 ).

He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1979. In 1992 he was president of the American Physical Society, Division of Nuclear Physics which he 1979/80 board and the Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics, he received in 1989.

Writings

• With Walter Thirring: Elementary quantum field theory, BI 1975 ( English original: Elementary Quantum Field Theory, McGraw Hill, 1962)
• Hans Frauenfelder: Nuclear and Particle Physics, Benjamin 1975
• Same: Subatomic Physics, Prentice- Hall, 1974, 2nd edition 1991, German: Particles and Nuclei: Subatomic Physics, Oldenbourg 1979, 4th edition 1999