Andrew Sessler

{{short description|American physicist and humanitarian}}

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Andrew Marienhoff Sessler (December 11, 1928 – April 17, 2014) was an American physicist, academic (University of California, Berkeley), former director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (1973–1980), humanitarian and former president (1998) of the American Physical Society.{{cite web|title=Andrew Sessler 1928-2014|url=http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/updates/andrewsessler.cfm|publisher=American Physical Society|access-date=26 April 2014|date=21 April 2014}}

Biography

Sessler was born in New York City in 1928.{{cite web|title=Andrew Sessler, 2013|url=http://science.energy.gov/fermi/award-laureates/2010s/sessler/|publisher=U.S. Department of Energy|access-date=26 April 2014|date=8 April 2014}} He was educated at Harvard University (B.A. in mathematics) and Columbia University (Ph.D. in physics){{cite web|title=In Memoriam: Andrew Sessler, Former Laboratory Director, Acclaimed Physicist and Humanitarian|url=http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2014/04/18/in-memoriam-andrew-sessler/|publisher=Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory|access-date=26 April 2014|date=18 April 2014}} with dissertation Hyperfine structure of 3He.{{cite thesis|author=Sessler, A. M.|year=1953|website=Columbia University Libraries|title=Hyperfine structure of 3He|url=https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/1555649}} From 1954 to 1959, he was a member of the faculty at Ohio State University before moving to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory where he served as Lab Director in 1973-80.

His areas of expertise were the physics of particle accelerators, particle physics and plasma physics. In addition to accelerator physics, he also published theoretical work on quantum-theoretical statistical mechanics, atomic physics and superfluidity. Sessler was also active in the study group of the National Academy of Sciences of the long-term effects of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and in an initiative group of APS against landmines. Sessler was a member of the American Committee for Peace in Chechnya.

In 1970, he became an Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award laureate. On January 13, 2014, Sessler and Allen J. Bard were awarded the Enrico Fermi Award.[http://energy.gov/articles/president-obama-names-scientists-bard-and-sessler-enrico-fermi-award-recipients "President Obama Names Scientists Bard and Sessler as Enrico Fermi Award Recipients"] DOE Press Release: Jan 13, 2014.

Sessler lived in Oakland, California.{{cite news|last=Thomas|first=Jeremy|title=Former Berkeley lab director Sessler dies at 85|url=http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_25595185/former-berkeley-lab-director-sessler-dies-at-85|access-date=26 April 2014|newspaper=San Jose Mercury News|date=18 April 2014}} He died in 2014 after a long illness.

Books

  • {{cite book|editor=Sessler, Andrew M.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gbeyAAAAIAAJ|isbn = 9780883187678|title = Beam Dynamics Issues of High-Luminosity Asymmetric Collider Rings|year = 1990|publisher = American Institute of Physics}}.
  • {{cite book|editor=Pellegrini, Claudio|editor-link=Claudio Pellegrini|editor2=Sessler, Andrew M.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SCQlWcatRo4C|isbn = 9781563963490|title = The Development of Colliders|date = 31 January 1995|publisher = Springer}}
  • {{cite book|author=Sessler, Andrew|author2=Wilson, Edmund|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mhTuzgEACAAJ|isbn = 9789812700704|title = Engines of Discovery: A Century of Particle Accelerators|year = 2007|publisher = World Scientific}}{{cite journal|author=Suller, Victor P.|title=Review of Engines of Discovery: A Century of Particle Accelerators by Andrew Sessler and Edmund Wilson|journal=Journal of Synchrotron Radiation|volume=15|pages=109–110|doi=10.1107/S0909049507052521|url=https://journals.iucr.org/s/issues/2008/01/00/pf0055/pf0055.pdf}} {{cite book|title=2nd edition|year=2014|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1oS6CgAAQBAJ|isbn=978-981-4417-19-8|postscript=; pbk|last1=Sessler |first1=Andrew }}

See also

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