Roy Schwitters

Frederick Roy Schwitters (* 1944 in Seattle ) is an American physicist who is engaged in experimental elementary particle physics.

Schwitters studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he in 1966 took his bachelor's degree in 1970 and his doctorate. It was in 1971 at SLAC ( Stanford University), where he was an Assistant Professor in 1974 and 1977 Associate Professor. 1979 to 1990 he was professor of physics at Harvard University. In the 1980s, he directed the construction of the CDF detector at Fermilab. 1989 to 1993 he was director of the planned Superconducting Super Collider in Texas (SSC ), which was then adjusted for cost reasons in 1993. Since 1990 he is professor at the University of Texas at Austin (SW Richardson Foundation Regen Professor of Physics ), 2001 to 2005 was head of the physics faculty.

He is involved in the BaBar experiment at SLAC and developed at the University of Texas, the Maya Muon Project, with the with underground detectors for muons from cosmic radiation, the structure of higher-than- detectors Substrate should be added, for example to Mayan ruins explore. The method of Luis Walter Alvarez was already used in Egyptian pyramids in the 1960s.

He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS ). In 1996 he was awarded the Panofsky Prize of the APS with Gail Hanson, for work that showed that from the hadronic final states (mainly particles with spin 0 or 1) in the then for example at the SPEAR collider studied at Stanford electron-positron annihilation events fragmentation processes of spin 1/2 particles, namely the unobservable quarks as free particles, originated. To this end, he compared the angular distribution of the processes from the pair production of muons. In 1998 he was Humboldt Research Fellow.

Schwitters currently leads the JASON Defense Advisory Group.