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Richard Blankenbecler
Professor (Emeritus)

E-mail: rzbth@slac.stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 926-2670
Group: THP

Education

SLAC, Stanford. B.A., 1954, Physics, Miami University. Ph.D., 1958, Physics, Stanford University.

Professional Academic History

Associate Professor, Princeton University, 1960-1966; Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1966-1969; Professor, SLAC, Stanford 1969-2003; Department Head, Theory, 1986-1994; Emeritus Professor, SLAC, Stanford, 2003-present.

Awards and Honors

Dr. Sc., (Hon.), Miami University, 1990; Fellow, Sloan Foundation, 1962-1964; Overseas Fellow, Churchill College; Cambridge, Professeur Etranger, University of Paris; Associate Editor, Physical Review Letters, 1976-1983; Chairman and Member, Advisory Board, NSF Institute for Theoretical Physics, UCSB, 1977-1984; Member, Physics Advisory Board, National Science Foundation, 1982-1985.

Research Areas

Development of new algorithms for extracting 3-D protein structure from a series of 2-D x-ray Fraunhofer patterns, for comparing protein structures, and for Monte Carlo simulation of systems in theoretical physics; development of interactive computer programs and algorithms for use in data analysis; formal scattering theory and its application to the physics of fractional charge, spin, and anomalies. Radiation processes at high energy.

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