Tomasz Skwarnicki | |
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Born | [1] | January 1, 1958
Alma mater | Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences Jagiellonian University |
Known for | pentaquarks |
Awards | Fellow of American Physical Society (2001) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Elementary particle physics High energy physics |
Institutions | Syracuse University DESY Southern Methodist University CERN |
Thesis | A Study of the Radiative Cascade Transitions Between the Upsilon-prime and Upsilon Resonances (1986) |
Website | artsandsciences |
Tomasz Skwarnicki is an Polish-American physicist and professor at Syracuse University. He is known for his research on gravitational wave detectors, experimental elementary particle physics, the Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment (LHCb), and pentaquarks. [2] [3]
Skwarnicki obtained a M.Sc. in Physics from Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland in 1982. He joined the Institute of Nuclear Physics in Krakow to earn a PhD in 1986. [1] [4]
Skwarnicki began his academic career at the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) in Hamburg, Germany and moved to the US in 1988. [1] In 1989, he joined the Department of Physics at Syracuse University as an assistant professor. He joined faculty at Southern Methodist University in 1992 while working at the Superconducting Super Collider in Dallas. [5] He moved back to Syracuse in 1995. [4]
Skwarnicki was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2001. [6]
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From: "Who's Who in Polish America" 1st Edition 1996-1997, Boleslaw Wierzbianski editor; Bicentennial Publishing Corporation, New York, NY, 1996.