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The Aspen Center for Physics (ACP) is a non-profit institution for physics research located in Aspen, Colorado, in the Rocky Mountains region of the United States. Since its foundation in 1962, it has hosted distinguished physicists for short-term visits during seasonal winter and summer programs, to promote collaborative research in fields including astrophysics, cosmology, condensed matter ...
List of scholars who have conducted research at the Aspen Center for Physics. Pages in category "Aspen Center for Physics people" The following 41 pages are in this category, out of 41 total.
Block’s lifelong passion for the mountains, especially for downhill skiing and fly-fishing, eventually took him to Aspen, where he joined the Aspen Center for Physics in its nascent years. He purchased a family home there in 1964, and he spent many vacations in Aspen until he left Northwestern to spend full time in Colorado. [2]
Michael Cohen was born in Manhattan, New York City in 1930. [1]Cohen earned his Bachelor of Science degree at Cornell University in 1951. Under the supervision of Richard Feynman, with whom he published papers on the physics of liquid helium, [4] [5] [6] Cohen earned his Ph.D. at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1956.
From 1998 to 2001, he served as President of the Aspen Center for Physics. [4] In 2005, he was elected fellow of the American Physical Society for his "contributions to Quantum Field Theory and String Theory, including string perturbation theory, supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory and AdS-CFT correspondence". [5] In 1996 he married Jody Enders.
During the 1960s and 1970s, the institute added organizations, programs, and conferences, including the Aspen Center for Physics, the Aspen Strategy Group, Communications and Society Program and other programs that concentrated on education, communications, justice, Asian thought, science, technology, the environment, and international affairs.
He is also the president of the Aspen Center for Physics and has been a member since 2004. He is also a board member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences. [15] [16] Troyer received the gold medal at the International Chemistry Olympiad in 1986 and the silver medal in 1985. [1] [17] [18]
Gasiorowicz was one of the founding fathers of William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute. From 1979 to 1986 Gasiorowicz was Vice-President of the Aspen Center for Physics, Aspen, CO, and in 1987-89 the Acting Director of FTPI.