Sidney Drell
Sidney Drell | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 13, 1926 |
| Died | December 21, 2016 (aged 90) Palo Alto, California, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Princeton University University of Illinois |
| Known for | Drell–Yan process |
| Children | 3, including Persis |
| Awards | E. O. Lawrence Award (1972) Pomeranchuk Prize (1998) Enrico Fermi Award (2000) Heinz Award for Public Policy (2005) National Medal of Science (2011) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | Stanford Linear Accelerator Center |
| Thesis | Part I Magnetic internal conversion coefficient Part II Electrostatic scattering of neutrons Part III Anomalous magnetic moments of nucleons (1949) |
| Doctoral advisor | Sidney Dancoff |
| Doctoral students | James Bjorken Steven Frautschi Roscoe Giles Robert Jaffe Heinz Pagels Joel Primack |
Sidney David Drell (September 13, 1926 – December 21, 2016) was an American theoretical physicist and arms control expert.
At the time of his death, he was professor emeritus at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) and senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Drell was a noted contributor in the fields of quantum electrodynamics and high-energy particle physics. The Drell–Yan process, which was used to discover the Higgs boson, is partially named for him.