Gary Westfall

Gary D. Westfall (born June 10, 1950) is an American experimental nuclear and high energy physicist and University Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University. He is also a co-author, with Wolfgang Bauer, of the introductory calculus-based physics textbook University Physics, published by McGraw-Hill in 2010.

Gary Westfall
Born (1950-06-10) June 10, 1950
Arlington, Texas
Alma materUniversity of Texas at Austin
Known forRelativistic heavy ion collisions, disappearance of flow, balance energy, fireball model
AwardsHumboldt Prize
Fellow of the American Physical Society
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics, Nuclear Physics
InstitutionsLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory
Michigan State University
Doctoral advisorAmir Zaidi
Notable studentsBarbara Jacak
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