Background
Primack, Joel Robert was born on July 14, 1945 in Santa Barbara, California, United States. Son of Roy and Loretta Primack.
Primack, Joel Robert was born on July 14, 1945 in Santa Barbara, California, United States. Son of Roy and Loretta Primack.
AB, Princeton University, 1966; Doctor of Philosophy, Stanford University, 1970.
Junior fellow, Society Fellows, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1970-1973;
assistant professor physics, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1973-1977;
associate professor, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1977-1983;
professor, University of California, Santa Cruz, since 1983. Member particle astrophysics panel NAS, Washington, 1989-1990. Member program advising committee National Science Foundation Center for Particle Astrophysics, 1990-1994.
Visiting Research.Rockefeller U., New York City, 1972, 75, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, 1978, Max Planck Institute Physics and Astrophysics, Munich, 1983, Stanford (California) Linear Accelerator Center, 1984, University of California, Berkeley, 1989-1990. Visiting fellow Institute Advanced Studies, Hebrew U. Jerusalem, Israel, 1990. Summer fellow Aspen (Colorado) Center Physics, 1974, 77, 82, 85, 88, 89, 91, 93.
Director Theoretical Advanced Study Institute in Particle Physics& Cosmology, 1986. Co-director Enrico Fermi School Cosmology, 1995.
United States delegate Pugwash Confs., 1978-1982. Member steering committee University of California Institute.on Global Conflict and Cooperative, 1986-1991. Fellow American Physical Society (Physics and Society award 1977), American Association for the Advancement of Science (nominate committee 1989-1991).
Member American Association of University Professors (committee A. 1983-1986), American Astronomical Society, Federation American Scientists (national county 1970-1974, Soviet Scientists Joint Disarmament Project committee 1987-1990).
Married Nancy Ellen Abrams, September 4, 1977. 1 child, Samara Tatiana Abrams-Primack.