Background
Schiffer, John Paul was born on November 22, 1930 in Budapest, Hungary. Son of Ernest and Elisabeth (Tornai) Schiffer. came to the United States, 1947, naturalized, 1953.
Schiffer, John Paul was born on November 22, 1930 in Budapest, Hungary. Son of Ernest and Elisabeth (Tornai) Schiffer. came to the United States, 1947, naturalized, 1953.
AB, Oberlin College, 1951; Master of Science, Yale University, 1952; Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1954.
Research associate, Rice Institute, Houston, 1954-1956;
assistant physicist, Argonne (Illinois) National Laboratory, 1956-1959;
associate physicist, Argonne (Illinois) National Laboratory, 1960-1963;
senior physicist, Argonne (Illinois) National Laboratory, since 1964;
associate director physics division, Argonne (Illinois) National Laboratory, 1964-1979, 83—;
director physics division, Argonne (Illinois) National Laboratory, 1979-1982. Professor physics University of Chicago, since 1968. Visiting associate professor Princeton, 1964.
Visiting professor U. Rochester, New York, 1967-1968. Member of advisory committees nuclear physics National Academy Sciences. Member program advisory or review committees Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility, 1971-1973, Indiana U. Cylotron Facility, 1974-1977, Laboratory for Nuclear science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1975-1979, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, Bevalac, 1978-1980, Swiss Institute Nuclear Research, 1981-1985, Max Planck Institute NuclearPhysics, 1982-1985.
Member physics advisory panel National Science Foundation, 1971-1973. Member NuclearSci. Advisory Committee Department Energy/National Science Foundation, 1981-1985, chairman, 1983-1985. Chairman program advising committee CEBAF, 1986-1991.
Chairman subcommittee Implementation of 1989 Long Range Plan for Nuclear science. Chair Committee on Nuclear Physics, National Research Council, since 1996.
Member cold fusion panel Department Energy, 1989. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science (member county, chair physics section 1992-1993), American Academy Artsand Sciences, American Physical Society (chairman division nuclear physics 1975-1976, Tom W. Bonner prize 1976). Member NAS, Royal Danish Academy Sciences and Letters.
Married Marianne Tsuk, June 28, 1960;children: Celia Anne, Peter Ernest.