George Trilling

George H. Trilling (1930 – 30 April 2020[1]) was an American physicist who earned his PhD from the California Institute of Technology in 1955,[2] and joined the faculty at the University of California Berkeley in 1960. He was the physics department chairman from 1968 through 1972. he was also the director of the Physics Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory from 1984 until 1987.[3] He was elected as the vice-president of the American Physical Society, beginning his term on 1 January 1999.[2]

Early life and education

Trilling was born in Poland. He earned his BS in 1951 and his PhD in 1955, both from Cal Tech. He did one year of postdoctoral studies and then studied in France on a Fulbright Fellowship.[4]

Career

In 1957 he joined the physics faculty at the University of Michigan. He moved to UC Berkeley in 1960. He was the physics department chair at Berkeley from 1968 to 1972 and the director of the Lawrence Berkeley national laboratory Physics Division from 1984 to 1987. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, serving as president in 2001, and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1983[5] and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1993.[4][6]

Fields of study

Trilling's research focuses on the study of high-energy interactions with electron-positron or proton-proton colliders. His work is a US collaboration using the Large Hadron Collider from the European Laboratory for Particle Physics known as CERN.[5]

References
  1. "Remembering George Trilling 1930 - 2020 | UC Berkeley Physics". physics.berkeley.edu.
  2. "George Trilling Elected APS Vice-President". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2020-03-31.
  3. "George H. Trilling". www.aip.org. 2017-12-11. Retrieved 2020-03-31.
  4. "George Trilling (E) | UC Berkeley Physics". physics.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-31.
  5. "George Trilling". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2020-03-31.
  6. "George Henry Trilling". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2020-03-31.
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