Herman Winick

Herman Winick (born October 2, 1932) is an American scientist and Professor Emeritus at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) and the Applied Physics Department of Stanford University.

Biography

After receiving his AB (1953) and PhD (1957) in physics from Columbia University, he continued work in experimental high energy physics at the University of Rochester (1957–59) and then as a member of the scientific staff and Assistant Director of the Cambridge Electron Accelerator at Harvard University (1959–73).

Work

He is best known for his leadership role, starting in the mid-1970s, in the development of wiggler and undulator insertion devices as advanced synchrotron radiation sources.[1] [2]

As of 2010 he is focusing largely on the International Centre for Synchrotron-Light for Experimental Science Applications in the Middle East (SESAME), work he began in 1998.[1]

Human rights activities

His human rights activities started in the 1980s working on behalf of dissidents from the China, Iran, the Soviet Union, and other countries.[1]

Award

In 2005 he received the Heinz R. Pagels Human Rights of Scientists Award from the New York Academy of Sciences.

Winick received the third Andrei Sakharov Prize from the American Physical Society (APS) in 2010 "for tireless and effective personal leadership in defense of human rights of scientists throughout the world".[1][3]

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gollark: That's it, I'm using the emergency GPT-3 shutdown codes.
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gollark: We don't have a great definition of "thought" or anything, and it's very possible that humans don't really do novel stuff very frequently.

References
  1. "Biographical Sketch of Herman Winick" (PDF). SLAC. September 2010. Retrieved June 1, 2014.
  2. Winick, Herman; George Brown; Klaus Halbach; John Harris (May 1981). "Synchrotron Radiation Wiggler and Undulator Magnets (updated November 2009 by Mark Duncan)" (PDF). Physics Today. 34 (5): 50–63. doi:10.1063/1.2914568. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 23, 2015. Retrieved May 9, 2017.
  3. "2010 Andrei Sakharov Prize Recipient Herman Winick". APS. Retrieved June 1, 2014.


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