Kate Scholberg is a Canadian and American neutrino physicist whose research has included experimental studies of neutrino oscillation and the detection of supernovae. She is Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor of Physics and Bass Fellow at Duke University.[1]
Education and career
As a child in Canada, Scholberg was interested in astronomy from a young age, but as a teenager she became interested in chemistry and entered college planning to become a chemist. However, after a bad experience in an organic chemistry course, she changed her focus to physics.[2] She graduated from McGill University in 1989, and completed her Ph.D. at the California Institute of Technology in 1996,[1] under the joint supervision of Charles W. Peck and Barry Barish.[3] Her interest in neutrino physics developed out of graduate work she did in an experiment whose original purpose was to look for magnetic monopoles,[2] using the MACRO detector at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy.[4]
After postdoctoral research at Boston University, and a junior faculty position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she moved to Duke University in 2004.[3][4] Before becoming Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor of Physics at Duke, she was the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Physics there.[4]
Research collaborations
Scholberg is a researcher in the Super-Kamiokande and Tokai-to-Kamioka (T2K) collaborations, the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, and the COHERENT detector at the Spallation Neutron Source of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.[1][5] She also coordinates the SuperNova Early Warning System.[2]
Recognition
In 2013 Scholberg was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), after a nomination by the APS Division of Particles and Fields, "for work with atmospheric and accelerator neutrinos that established the phenomenon of neutrino oscillation, and for leadership in the worldwide effort of the supernova neutrino detection".[6]
References
"Kate Scholberg", People, Duke Physics
Mehta, Jatan (December 18, 2019), Interviewing neutrino-hunting particle physicist Kate Scholberg (PDF), Tata Institute of Fundamental Research; also online on Jatan's Space
"Kate Scholberg (Duke U.)", Inspire, retrieved 2020-06-26
Kate Scholberg (PDF), DOE/NSF Nuclear Science Advisory Committee, retrieved 2020-06-26
"Kate Scholberg", Faces of DUNE, Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, retrieved 2020-06-26
APS Fellows Nominated by DPF: 2013, retrieved 2020-06-26
External links
Home page
Kate Scholberg publications indexed by Google Scholar
Hellenica World - Scientific Library
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