accelerator physicist
{{Short description|Physicist who contributes to the design, operation and optimization of particle accelerators}}
An accelerator physicist"Engines of Discovery
A Century of Particle Accelerators https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/6272 is a scientist who contributes to the field of accelerator physics, involving the fundamental physical mechanisms underlying beams of charged particles accelerated to high energies and the structures and materials needed to do so. In addition to developing and applying such basic theoretical models, an accelerator physicist contributes to the design, operation and optimization of particle accelerators.
Significant accelerator physicists
- John Cockcroft{{cite web |title=John Cockroft |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1951/cockcroft/facts/ |website=The Nobel Prize |access-date=15 December 2021}}
- Ernest Courant{{cite web |last1=Peters |first1=Erika |title=Happy 100th Birthday to Ernest Courant |url=https://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=217140 |website=Brookhaven National Laboratory |access-date=15 December 2021}}
- Helen T. Edwards{{cite web|url=https://www.macfound.org/fellows/332/|title=Helen T. Edwards — MacArthur Foundation|work=macfound.org|access-date=4 November 2016}}
- Donald William Kerst{{cite web |url=http://archives.library.illinois.edu/blog/donald-kerst-and-the-betatron/ |title="A Very Bold and Original Device": Donald Kerst and the Betatron |first=Bethany |last=Anderson |publisher=University of Illinois |date=June 11, 2013 |access-date=October 2, 2014 }}
- Ernest Lawrence{{cite web |title=The Nobel Prize in Physics 1939 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1939/lawrence/facts/ |website=NobelPrize.org |access-date=15 December 2021}}
- Carlo Rubbia{{cite web |title=The Nobel Prize in Physics 1984 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1984/rubbia/facts/ |website=NobelPrize.org |access-date=16 December 2021}}
- Ernest Rutherford{{cite web |title=The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1908 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1908/rutherford/facts/ |website=NobelPrize.org |access-date=16 December 2021}}
- Andrew Sessler{{cite web |title=Andrew Sessler 1928-2014 |url=https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/updates/andrewsessler.cfm |website=www.aps.org |access-date=16 December 2021 |language=en}}
- Robert Van de Graaff{{cite web |title=Van de Graaf, Robert Jemison, 1901-1967 |url=https://history.aip.org/phn/11610027.html |website=history.aip.org |publisher=American Institute of Physics |access-date=16 December 2021}}
- Simon van der Meer
{{cite web
| title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1984
| url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1984/index.html
| publisher = The Nobel Foundation
| access-date = 31 October 2009
}}
- Ernest Walton{{cite web |title=The Nobel Prize in Physics 1951 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1951/walton/facts/ |website=NobelPrize.org |access-date=16 December 2021}}
- Rolf Widerøe{{cite journal |last1 = Livingston | first1 = M. S. | authorlink = Milton S. Livingston | title = Early history of particle accelerators | year = 1980 | journal = Advances in Electronics and Electron Physics | editor = Marton, L. | volume = 50 | publisher = Academic Press | pages = 24 | doi = 10.1016/S0065-2539(08)61061-6 | bibcode = 1980AEEP...50....1L | isbn = 9780080577159 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=27c1WOjCBX4C&pg=PA24 | url-access = subscription }}