Lawrence Sulak
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|field = Particle physics
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|alma_mater = Carnegie Mellon University (B.A.)
Princeton University (M.A., Ph.D.)
|thesis_title = A precise measurement of the K°₁ - K°₂ mass difference
|thesis_year = 1970
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Lawrence Sulak (born August 29, 1944) is an American physicist, currently the David M. Myers Distinguished Professor at Boston University.{{cite web | title=Lawrence R. Sulak | website=Boston University | date=2023-07-11 | url=https://www.bu.edu/physics/profile/lawrence-r-sulak/ | access-date=2023-12-10}}{{Cite web |archive-date=2017-06-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170614044216/http://physics.bu.edu/people/show/70 |url=http://physics.bu.edu/people/show/70 |title=Lawrence Sulak |publisher=bu.edu |access-date=April 27, 2017}}{{Cite web |url=http://physics.bu.edu/~sulak/ |title=Lawrence Sulak |publisher=bu.edu |access-date=April 27, 2017}} Some of Sulak's research includes Higgs detection at the Compact Muon Solenoid in the Large Hadron Collider, neutrino physics, astrophysics, and contributing work for the Monopole, Astrophysics and Cosmic Ray Observatory.
Early life and education
Sulak was born in 1944. He did a Bachelor of Arts at Carnegie Mellon University, and then his M.A. and Ph.D. from at Princeton University. His dissertation is titled A precise measurement of the K°₁ - K°₂ mass difference.{{cite thesis | last=Sulak | first=Lawrence R. | title=A precise measurement of the K°₁ - K°₂ mass difference | publisher=Princeton Univ.; Elementary Particle Lab | publication-place=Princeton - N.J | year=1970 | oclc=890321976 | page=}}
Career
Following his PhD, Sulak's work in the early 1970s are described by Peter Galison in a history of neutral currents which appeared in Reviews of Modern Physics.{{cite journal | last=Galison | first=Peter | title=How the first neutral-current experiments ended | journal=Reviews of Modern Physics | volume=55 | issue=2 | date=1983-04-01 | issn=0034-6861 | doi=10.1103/RevModPhys.55.477 | pages=477–509}}
Sulak is mentioned in the 1986 book Second Creation{{cite book | last=Crease | first=Robert P. | last2=Mann | first2=Charles C. | title=The Second Creation | publisher=Rutgers University Press | publication-place=New Brunswick, NJ | date=1996 | isbn=978-0-8135-2177-0 | page=}} on the history of modern particle physics by Robert Crease and Charles Mann. It opens with a description of being escorted by Sulak down to the experimental halls of the salt mine under Lake Erie in Ohio converted to a proton decay detector designed by Sulak and the rest of the Irvine Michigan Brookhaven collaboration.
Awards
Some of Sulak's awards that he has received include:
- W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics (2018){{cite news |last=Rimer |first=Sara |date=November 6, 2017 |title=Larry Sulak Wins Top US Prize in Experimental Particle Physics |url=http://www.bu.edu/today/2017/larry-sulak-wins-panofsky-prize-in-experimental-particle-physics/ |access-date=2018-08-06}}{{cite web |url=https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/panofsky.cfm |title=W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics |author= |website=aps.org |access-date=2018-08-06 }}
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