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(Particle physicists explore the microworld of the atom; c...)
Particle physicists explore the microworld of the atom; cosmologists study the universe on a grand scale. From Quarks to the Cosmos follows the dramatic merger of these fields as they seek to define the connections among all structures, great and small - the so-called 'theory of everything'.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/071675052X/?tag=2022091-20
1989
(Explores recent research into dark matter and its impact ...)
Explores recent research into dark matter and its impact on the composition of the universe and the motions of galaxies, and describes efforts to determine what dark matter might be.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0716721570/?tag=2022091-20
1991
(This volume of important papers by one the world's leadin...)
This volume of important papers by one the world's leading astrophysicists provides a sweeping survey of the incisive and exciting applications of nuclear and particle physics to a wide range of problems in astrophysics and cosmology.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/9810220243/?tag=2022091-20
1996
astrophysicist educator author
David Norman Schramm was born on October 25, 1945, in Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. He was the son of Marvin, a World War II veteran of the Army Air Force who worked for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and Betty who was director of the St. Louis County Library.
A Greco-Roman wrestler in college, Schramm graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1967 and received his doctorate in physics in 1971 from the California Institute of Technology, where he was also a postdoctoral fellow until 1972.
After a brief time as faculty at the University of Texas at Austin from 1971 to 1974, Schramm accepted the position of an associate professor in astronomy and astrophysics at the Enrico Fermi Institute. He was promoted to full professor in 1977 and served as chairman of astronomy and astrophysics from 1977 to 1984. He was also chairman of the board on physics and astronomy of the National Research Council from 1989 to 1997 and a visiting professor and guest-lecturer at Macalester College of the University of Utah, Stanford.
Schramm, an avid private pilot, died on 19 December 1997, when his Swearingen-Fairchild SA-226 crashed near Denver, Colorado. He was the sole occupant of the aircraft. The National Transportation Safety Board found the cause to be pilot error. At the time of his death, he was Vice President for Research and Louis Block Distinguished Service Professor in the Physical Sciences at the University of Chicago.
David Schramm was an authority on the Big Bang theory of the origins of the universe and was a pioneer in establishing particle astrophysics as a vibrant research field. He was particularly well known for the study of Big Bang nucleosynthesis and its use as a probe of dark matter (both baryonic and non-baryonic) and of neutrinos. He also made important contributions to the study of cosmic rays, supernova explosions, heavy-element nucleosynthesis, and nuclear astrophysics generally.
Schramm's three major books were From Quarks to the Cosmos: Tools of Discovery (with L. Lederman in 1989), The Shadows of Creation: Dark Matter and the Structure of the Universe (with E. Michael Riordan in 1990) and The Big Bang and Other Explosions in Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics (1996). Schramm was also an editor of the Theoretical Astrophysics series, a columnist for Outside beginning in 1979, and a correspondent for Comments on Nuclear and Particle Physics, from 1984 until 1990.
Schramm also contributed hundreds of articles to American Journal of Physics, Particle World, Physics Reports and he was a member of the editorial committee of the Annual Review of Nuclear Science (now the Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science).
The David N. Schramm Award for High Energy Astrophysics Science Journalism was created in his honour in the year 2000 by the High-Energy Astrophysics Division of the American Astronomical Society. Fermilab hosts the David Schramm Fellowship in theoretical or experimental astrophysics.
(This volume of important papers by one the world's leadin...)
1996(Explores recent research into dark matter and its impact ...)
1991(Particle physicists explore the microworld of the atom; c...)
1989Schramm was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1986.
Schramm had the self-confidence of a champion athlete in everything he did. Some even mistook this self-confidence for hubris or even recklessness. However, famous for his toughness on the playing field or while climbing mountains, he had a lifelong phobia of hospitals, needles, and blood.
Physical Characteristics: Schramm's large presence in space went beyond his 6-foot, 4-inch, 240-pound frame and bright red hair.
Before going off to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Schramm married his high school sweetheart Melinda Holzhauer, and his first son, David Cary, was born during his freshman year. Shortly after he arrived at Caltech as a graduate student in physics in 1967, his second son, Derik Brett, was born.
David married second time Judith Jane Zielinski, Leon Lederman’s director’s assistant, in Aspen on June 20, 1986. In the years that followed, David and Judy spent more time in their Aspen home, and it became the preferred location for family get-togethers that included David’s two sons, Cary and Brett, and Judy’s children, Tegan, Eric, Laura, and Amy.
