Lee Girard Pondrom

Background

Pondrom, Lee Girard was born on December 26, 1933 in Dallas, Texas, United States. Son of Levi Girard and Guinevere (Miller) Pondrom.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Southern Methodist U., 1953; Master of Science, University of Chicago, 1956; Doctor of Philosophy, University Chicago, 1958.

Career

Instructor, department physics, Columbia University, New York City, 1960-1963; associate professor department physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1963-1969; professor physics, University of Wisconsin, since 1969; Robert Williams Wood professor, University of Wisconsin, since 1992. Department chairman University of Wisconsin, since 1997. Member high energy advising committee Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1973-1975, chairman Associated Universities, Inc., visiting committee, 1987.

Member physics advising committee Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, 1979-1982, chairman,1981-1982. Advising committee for physics National Science Foundation, 1981-1984. Member high energy advisory panel (physics) unites states department Energy, 1981-1984, 87-88, chairman subcommittee on detectors, 1987-1988, member subpanel on future facilities, high energy physics, 1983, member subpanel on future modes of experimental research in high energy physics, 1987.

Trustee Universities Research Association, 1973-1976, 82-85. Member science policy committee Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, 1984-1988. Mem.Internat. Committee Future Accelerators, 1984-1990.

Chairman Snowmass 1986 Summer Study on the SSC. Chairman User's Organisation for the SSC, 1987-1989, member science policy committee SSC Laboratory, 1992. Member CDRF awards commission to scientists in former Soviet Union, 1996.

Achievements

• Lee Girard Pondrom has been listed as a noteworthy Physicist, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Served to First lieutenant United States Air Force, 1958-1960. Fellow American Physical Society (chairman division particles and fields 1987, commission on status of women in physics since 1989, Chairman of Commission to award the Panofsky prize 1991). Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, Phi Beta Kappa (president Wisconsin Alpha chapter 1996-1997).

Connections

Married Cyrena Jo Norman, August 25, 1961.

Father:

Levi Girard Pondrom

Mother:

Guinevere (Miller) Pondrom

Spouse:

Cyrena Jo Norman