Professor Arie Bodek Named George E. Pake Professor of Physics
It is my pleasure to announce that the University Board of Trustees, at their recent meeting, has honored Arie Bodek, Professor of Physics and Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, with appointment as the first George E. Pake Professor of Physics effective March 1, 2005.
There will be a reception (featuring wine and cheese) to celebrate Arie's appointment as George E. Pake Professor of Physics on Tuesday April 5, 2005, 3:00 pm in B&L 271. Please join me in congratulating Arie on this happy occasion in his honor.
Arie is the fourth faculty member in the Department of Physics and Astronomy to hold a named chair, joining Nick Bigelow, Lee A. DuBridge Professor of Physics (and Optics), Joseph H. Eberly, Andrew Carnegie Professor of Physics (and Optics), and Emil Wolf, Wilson Professor of Optical Physics.
The Pake Chair is named in honor of George E. Pake, who was a life trustee of the University. Pake died March 4, 2004. He was 79. In 1970, after serving as vice chancellor, provost, and professor of physics at Washington University in St. Louis, Pake became the first director of the Palo Alto (Califoria) Research Center of Xerox Corporation, where he began exploring the then new field of computer science. Pake persuaded the company to locate the research center near Stanford University, where he taught physics from 1956 to 1962. He later became Xerox's vice president for research. He served on the President's Science Advisory Committee under both Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, and in 1987, he received the National Medal of Science from President Ronald Reagan.
The American Physical Society George E. Pake Prize was established to recognize and encourage outstanding work by physicists combining original research accomplishments with leadership in the management of research or development in industry. It was endowed in 1983 by the Xerox Corporation in recognition of the outstanding achievements of George E. Pake, as a research physicist and a director of industrial research.
(see http://www.aps.org/praw/pake/index.cfm)
Highlights of Professor Bodek's Research
Professor Bodek is a distinguished researcher in the field of experimental High Energy Physics. For his Ph.D., he worked under Profs. Henry Kendall and Jerome Friedmann on the MIT-SLAC deep inelastic electron scattering experiments that provided evidence for the quark structure of matter; the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Friedman, Kendall and Taylor for these experiments.
Prof. Bodek received his B.S. in Physics (1968) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his Ph.D. in Physics (1972) also from MIT. He was a postdoctoral associate at MIT (1972-74) and a Robert E. Millikan Fellow at Caltech (1974-77). Prof. Bodek joined the University of Rochester as an Assistant Professor of Physics in 1977. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1980, and to Professor in 1987. Prof. Bodek was appointed as an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (1979-81); NSF-JSPS Fellow, KEK, Japan (1986); and Fellow of the American Physical Society (1985). He served as a project director at the Department of Energy (1990-91), was Associate Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy (1995-98), and is on the editorial board of the European Physics Journal C. He has been serving as Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy since 1998. Professor Bodek was awarded the 2004 APS W.KH. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics "For his broad, sustained, and insightful contributions to elucidating the structure of the nucleon, using a wide variety of probes, tools and methods at many laboratories." In 2004, Prof. Bodek received the University of Rochester Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching. He was included in ISI list of highly cited researchers in 2004.
Prof. Bodek's current research interests are in the physics of W', Z's and Dileptons (CDF); neutrino physics and neutrino oscillations (CCFR/NuTeV/MINERvA at Fermilab); deep inelastic scattering and nucleon structure (JUPITER at Jefferson Lab); quark distributions in nuclei. In the area of instrumentation, Prof. Bodek's research is in the area of scintillating tile/optical-fiber hadron calorimeters. Prof. Bodek's research group is currently involved in the CDF, CMS and MINERvA experiments. He is also the co-spokesperson of the Jefferson Lab JUPITER program (experiment E04-001). In CDF his group has the CDF plug upgrade hadron calorimeter. For CMS his group has constructed the HCAL hadron calorimeter. Both calorimeters were constructed using tile-fiber technology.
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George E. Pake
Janet L. Fogg
3/15/05; 2:06:05 PM