Sekazi Mtingwa

Sekazi K. Mtingwa (born October 20, 1949) is an American theoretical high-energy physicist. He is a co-recipient of the 2017 Robert R. Wilson Prize for Achievement in the Physics of Particle Accelerators.[1][2] He is the first African-American to be awarded the prize.[3] Mtingwa was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) [4] in 2008 for "his definitive treatment of Intrabeam scattering, his contributions to the wakefield acceleration, and his early recognition of the fixed target physics potential of the next generation electron-positron collider."[5] He also co-founded the National Society of Black Physicists in 1977 [4] and served in various other national and international initiatives.

Sekazi Mtingwa
BornOctober 20, 1949
NationalityAmerican
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology;
Princeton University
AwardsRobert R. Wilson Prize for Achievement in the Physics of Particle Accelerators
American Nuclear Society Distinguished Service Award
National Society of Black Physicists' Outstanding Service Award
Scientific career
FieldsHigh energy physics

Biography

Mtingwa was born in Atlanta, Georgia. He studied physics and pure mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he received his B.S. degrees in 1971. Afterwards, he joined graduate school at Princeton University, where he was awarded a Ph. D. degree in theoretical high energy physics in 1976.[6] The title of his PhD thesis is "Asymptotic chiral invariance and its consequences."[7]

In 1981, he became a research physicist at Fermilab in Illinois. In joint work with James Bjorken, an American theoretical physicist who is Emeritus Professor at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, he developed a theory of "intrabeam scattering" in particle accelerators.[8][9] For this work, he was awarded the 2017 Robert E. Wilson Prize for Achievement in the Physics of Particle Accelerators,[1] since that theory "empowered major discoveries in a broad range of disciplines by a wide variety of accelerators, including hadron colliders, damping rings/linear colliders, and low emittance synchrotron light sources."[1]

While at Fermilab, he also contributed in a significant way to two of the antiproton source accelerator systems,[10] which were instrumental in particle discoveries, including that of the top quark.

In 1988–1991, Mtingwa was at Argonne National Laboratory. Starting in 1991, he joined the faculty at North Carolina A&T State University (with a brief stint at Morgan State University in 1997-1999). He has been a visiting professor at MIT and Harvard University.

Sekazi Mtingwa is a founder of the African Laser Centre and a cofounder of Triangle Science, Education & Economic Development, a consulting company that supports underrepresented groups in STEM. Mtingwa is a cofounder and former president of the National Society of Black Physicists.

He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (elected in 2008)[5] and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (elected in 2015 [11]).

References
  1. "2017 APS Prize Recipient". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
  2. "2017 Robert R. Wilson Prize for Achievement in the Physics of Particle Accelerators Recipient". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
  3. Waugh, Alice. "Sekazi Mtingwa works to help underrepresented minorities succeed in STEM fields". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
  4. "Sekazi Mtingwa's Biography". The HistoryMakers. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
  5. "APS Fellow Archive". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
  6. "Sekazi Mtingwa". Physics Today. 2018-10-20. doi:10.1063/PT.6.6.20181020a.
  7. MTINGWA, S. K. (1976). Asymptotic Chiral Invariance And Its Consequences (Order No. 7702157). Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (302772312). Retrieved from https://search.proquest.com/docview/302772312
  8. JAMES D. BJORKEN and SEKAZI K. MTINGWA. "INTRABEAM SCATTERING" (PDF). Particle Accelerators. 13.
  9. Piwinski, Anton; Bjorken, James D.; Mtingwa, Sekazi K. (2018-11-07). "Wilson Prize article: Reflections on our experiences with developing the theory of intrabeam scattering". Physical Review Accelerators and Beams. 21 (11). doi:10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.21.114801. ISSN 2469-9888.
  10. Church, M D; Marriner, J P (December 1993). "The Antiproton Sources: Design and Operation". Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science. 43 (1): 253–295. Bibcode:1993ARNPS..43..253C. doi:10.1146/annurev.ns.43.120193.001345. ISSN 0163-8998.
  11. Science, American Association for the Advancement of (2015-11-27). "AAAS Members Elected as Fellows". Science. 350 (6264): 1047–1049. doi:10.1126/science.350.6264.1047. ISSN 0036-8075.



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