- Sam Treiman
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New York ,USA
residence =United States
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nationality = American
ethnicity =Russia n-Lithuania n
fields =Physicist
workplaces =Princeton University
alma_mater =Northwestern University University of Chicago
doctoral_advisor =Enrico Fermi John Alexander Simpson Jr.
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doctoral_students =Curtis Callan Stephen L. Adler Nicola Khuri Steven Weinberg Carl Albright Kenneth EdwardsYoung Suh Kim John Bronzan Binayak Dutta-Roy Paul KantorAlfred Goldhaber Jonathan Rosner Porter Johnson Rein Uritam Herbert Chen Stephen Schutz Kazuo Fujikawa Glennys Farrar William Shanahan Bennie Ward Robert Schrock Evelyn Monsay Cornell Chun Dean Preston Michael Musolf
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known_for =Goldberger-Treiman relation Callan-Treiman relation
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awards =Oersted Medal (1995}
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footnotes =Sam Bard Treiman (
May 27 ,1925 -November 30 ,1999 ) was an American theoreticalphysicist who produced important research in the fields ofquantum physics ,plasma physics andgravity physics. He was a Professor of physics atPrinceton University , a member of the National Academy of Sciences and member of theJASON Defense Advisory Group . He was a student ofEnrico Fermi andJohn Alexander Simpson Jr. Treiman published numerous articles onquantum mechanics , plasmas,gravity theory,condensed matter and the history of physics.He graduated from
Northwestern University for his undergraduate work and received a PhD from theUniversity of Chicago in 1952. He began teaching at Princeton in the 1950s and was appointedHiggins Professor of Physics there. His best known student at Princeton wasSteven Weinberg , recipient of theNobel Prize in physics in 1979. Other well known students areCurtis Callan andStephen L. Adler , both of the class of 1964.As a member of the National Academy of Sciences and
JASON Defense Advisory Group , he was a key advisor to the U.S. Government in the fields ofplasma physics , physics education and strategic planning.He died of
leukemia onNovember 30 ,1999 .Publications of Sam Treiman
* Sam Treiman's publication records in
SPIRES [http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/hepnames/www?rawcmd=FIND+NAME+sam+TREIMAN&FORMAT=WWW]
*Cite book
publisher = Princeton University Press
isbn = 0691009260
last = Treiman
first = Sam B.
title = The Odd Quantum
location = Princeton, NJ
date = 1999
* "Photonics : Managing Competitiveness in the Information Era", Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics and Applications, Vice Chairman S. Treiman, Board on Physics andAstronomy , National Academy of Sciences (1988)Publications about Sam Treiman
* Abraham Pais, "The Genius of Science: a Portrait Gallery of Twentieth Century Physicists",
Oxford University Press (2000)
* Paul Hartman, "A Memoir to thePhysical Review , A History of the First One Hundred Years",American Institute of Physics (1994) ISBN 1-56396-282-9
* [http://www.aps-pub.com/proceedings/1461/111.pdf "Sam Bard Treiman"] A biographical memoir for theAmerican Physical Society byVal Fitch (2002).
* [http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/biomems/streiman.pdf "Sam Bard Treiman"] A biographical memoir for the National Academy of Sciences bySteve Adler (2001).External links
* [http://ysfine.com/people/sbt.html Sam Treiman photo]
* [http://www.nap.edu/html/biomems/streiman.html Biography]
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