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Photo: David W.G.S. Leith, SLAC HEP Faculty

David W.G.S. Leith
Professor

E-mail: leith@slac.stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 926-2663
Fax: (650) 925-3587/4178
Group: BBR Group B

Education

B.S. (Honors, First Class), 1959, Natural Philosophy; Ph.D., 1962, Natural Philosophy, University of Glasgow, Scotland.

Professional Academic History

Research Fellow, University of Glasgow, 1962-1963; Staff Physicist, CERN, 1963-1966; Associate Professor, SLAC, Stanford, 1966-1970; Professor, SLAC, Stanford, 1970-present; Stanford University Senate, 1988-1990; Chair, SLAC HEP Faculty, 1980-1990; Director of Research, SLAC, 1991-2000.

Awards and Honors

Faraday Medal, University of Glasgow. Fellow, American Physical Society. Member, British Institute of Physics and Physical Society.

Research Areas

Strong interaction dynamics; light quark spectroscopy; Z° boson properties; QCD; B physics; CP violation; new detection devices and instrumentation.

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Last update on 26 Jan 2007 by McDunn