Alan Astbury
Encyclopedia
Alan Astbury FRS is a Canadian physicist
, professor emeritus at University of Victoria
, and was director of the Tri-Universities Meson Facility (TRIUMF
) laboratory.
He led a group from the Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory who confirmed the existence of the W particle
.
He was president of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics.
Physicist
A physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning all length scales: from sub-atomic particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole...
, professor emeritus at University of Victoria
University of Victoria
The University of Victoria, often referred to as UVic, is the second oldest public research university in British Columbia, Canada. It is a research intensive university located in Saanich and Oak Bay, about northeast of downtown Victoria. The University's annual enrollment is about 20,000 students...
, and was director of the Tri-Universities Meson Facility (TRIUMF
TRIUMF
TRIUMF is Canada’s national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics. Its headquarters are located on the south campus of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia. TRIUMF houses the world's largest cyclotron, source of 500 MeV protons, which was named an IEEE Milestone...
) laboratory.
He led a group from the Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory who confirmed the existence of the W particle
W and Z bosons
The W and Z bosons are the elementary particles that mediate the weak interaction; their symbols are , and . The W bosons have a positive and negative electric charge of 1 elementary charge respectively and are each other's antiparticle. The Z boson is electrically neutral and its own...
.
He was president of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics.
Honours and Awards
- 2002 CAP Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Physics
- 1989 Fellow of the Royal Society of CanadaRoyal Society of CanadaThe Royal Society of Canada , may also operate under the more descriptive name RSC: The Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada , is the oldest association of scientists and scholars in Canada...
- 1993 Fellow of the Royal Society of London
Works
- Fundamental Interactions: Proceedings of the 23rd Lake Louise Winter Institute, Editors Alan Astbury, Alexander Penin, Faqir Khanna, World Scientific, 2009, ISBN 9789814280938
- Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on High Energy Physics: ICHEP '98, Editors Alan Astbury, David Axen, Jake Robinson, World Scientific, 1999, ISBN 9789810237721
External links
- "Dr. Alan Astbury's honorary degree acceptance speech in 2006 at Simon Fraser University". April 8, 2009
- "Alan Astbury", Scientific Commons