George Randolph Kalbfleisch

Dr. George Randolph Kalbfleisch (March 14, 1931–September 12, 2006) was Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Oklahoma. Events 1489 - The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice. Year 1931 ( MCMXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1931 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1213 - Albigensian Crusade: Simon de Montfort 5th Earl of Leicester, defeats Peter II of Aragon at the Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Physics (Greek Physis - φύσις in everyday terms is the Science of Matter and its motion. University of Oklahoma, abbreviated OU, is a Coeducational public Research university located in the U

George Kalbfleisch was born March 14, 1931 in Long Beach, California, to Friedrich Carl and Hildegard Kalbfleisch. He graduated from Phineas Banning High School, Wilmington, California, in 1948. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from Loyola University, Los Angeles, California, in 1952. Chemistry (from Egyptian kēme (chem meaning "earth") is the Science concerned with the composition structure and properties On October 23, 1954, he married Ruth Ann Adams in San Pedro, California. He received his Ph. D. in experimental High Energy Physics in 1961 from the University of California at Berkeley. Particle physics is a branch of Physics that studies the elementary constituents of Matter and Radiation, and the interactions between them The University of California Berkeley (also referred to as Cal, Berkeley and UC Berkeley) is a major research university located in Berkeley He worked as a post-doctoral associate at the University of California at Berkeley with Dr. Luis Alvarez, as a staff physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, New York, for twelve years, and at Fermi National Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois, for three years. Luis W Alvarez (June 13 1911 San Francisco California &ndash September 1 1988 was an American physicist and Inventor, who spent nearly A physicist is a Scientist who studies or practices Physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning Brookhaven National Laboratory ( BNL) is a United States national laboratory located in Upton New York on Long Island, and was formally established Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory ( Fermilab) located in Batavia near Chicago, Illinois, is a U He performed experiments in the systematizing and the discovery of new particles since 1958, using beams of muons, pions, kaons, protons and antiprotons, and neutrinos. The muon (from the letter mu (μ--used to represent it is an Elementary particle with negative Electric charge and a spin of 1/2 In Particle physics, pion (short for pi meson) is the collective name for three Subatomic particles, and. In Particle physics, a kaon (/ˈkeɪɒn/ also called K-meson and denoted) is any one of a group of four Mesons distinguished by the fact that they The proton ( Greek πρῶτον / proton "first" is a Subatomic particle with an Electric charge of one positive The antiproton ( pronounced p-bar) is the Antiparticle of the Proton. Neutrinos are Elementary particles that travel close to the Speed of light, lack an Electric charge, are able to pass through ordinary matter almost He worked with liquid hydrogen bubble chambers until 1972, and subsequently worked with electronic spectrometers. A bubble chamber is a vessel filled with a superheated transparent Liquid (most often Liquid hydrogen) used to detect electrically charged He performed research at CERN Laboratory in Switzerland during a sabbatical in 1972. The European Organization for Nuclear Research (Organisation Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire known as CERN While at Fermilab, he was in charge of the superconducting quadrupoles for the Tevatron (at that time, the world's highest energy machine), built more than twenty prototype quadrupoles, and developed and provided the production tooling from which more than 200 quadrupoles were made for the Tevatron. Tevatron is a circular Particle accelerator at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia Illinois and is the highest energy particle collider

Dr. Kalbfleisch came to the University of Oklahoma (OU) in 1979 where he established the OU High Energy Physics group (OU-HEP). University of Oklahoma, abbreviated OU, is a Coeducational public Research university located in the U He was elected as a Fellow in the American Physical Society in 1982 for his discoveries of the first hyperonic beta decay, of the ninth pseudoscalar meson, the first direct observation of the electron-neutrino in muon decay and direct measurements of the velocities of neutrinos. The American Physical Society was founded in 1899 and is the World 's second largest organization of physicists behind the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft. In 1990, he established a sister High Energy Physics group at Langston University, Langston, Oklahoma. Langston University is an institution of higher learning located in Langston, Oklahoma, USA. He was a consultant for the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory in Waxahachie, Texas until the United States Government canceled that project in 1993. The Superconducting Super Collider ( SSC) would have been the world's largest and highest-energy Particle accelerator complex that was planned to be built mostly in In 1999, Dr. Kalbfleisch retired from teaching at the University of Oklahoma, although he continued conducting research as Professor Emeritus of Physics until a few weeks before his death. In 2001, he was the first physicist inducted into the inaugural Alumni Wall of Fame at Loyola Marymount University, in honor of his lifetime achievements. Loyola Marymount University (LMU is a comprehensive co-educational private Roman Catholic Jesuit university in Los Angeles California, United States His research has included the study of "charm quark" and "beauty quark" quantum states at Fermilab and neutrino properties in-house at OU, and was supported by continuing grants from the United States Department of Energy. The charm Quark is a second-generation quark with an electric charge of +(2/3 e. The bottom quark is a third-generation Quark with a charge of − e. The United States Department of Energy ( DOE) is a Cabinet -level department of the United States government responsible for energy policy He finished the search for low mass accelerator produced magnetic monopoles (E-882, 1995) approved by Fermilab and performed at OU. Most recently, he worked on an EDM (electric dipole moment) of the electron experiment at OU, with younger collaborators. In Physics, the electric dipole moment (or electric dipole for short is a measure of the polarity of a system of Electric charges. He published more than one hundred and ninety articles in elementary particle physics.

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