Professor Gerald Gabrielse
Prof. Gerald Gabrielse, Guest Lecturer at the Emilio Segre Distinguished Lectures in Physics Endowed by Raymond and Beverly Sackler for the academic year 2013/2014, is Leverett Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics at the University of Harvard.
Prof. Gabrielse received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago and completed his post-doctoral training at the Chaim Weizmann Institute of Science while filling research positions at the University of Washington. In 1987 he became Professor of Physics at Harvard University and during 2000-2003 he was chair of the Harvard Physics Department.
Prof. Gabrielse is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Among Prof. Gabrielse’s awards and scholarships are the Trotter Prize (2013), the Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize of the American Physical Society (2011), the Premio Caterina Tomassoni and Felice Pietro Chisesi Prize (2008), the Humboldt Research Award (2005), the George Ledlie Prize (2004), the Davisson-Germer Prize of the American Physical Society (2002) and the Levenson Prize for Excellence in the Education of Undergraduates, Harvard University (2000).
Prof. Gabrielse’s research focuses on devising and implementing methods to understand the physical reality, using small-scale, low Energy experiments. Gabrielse was a pioneer in the field of low energy antiproton and antihydrogen physics by proposing the trapping of antiprotons from a storage ring, cooling them in collisions with trapped electrons, and the use of these to form low energy antihydrogen atoms. He led the TRAP team that realized the first antiproton trapping, the first electron cooling of trapped antiprotons, and the accumulation of antiprotons in a 4 Kelvin apparatus. The demonstrations and methods made led to the establishment of an international collaboration of physicists working at the CERN's Antiproton Decelerator. In 1999, Prof. Gabrielse's TRAP team made the most precise test of the Standard Model's fundamental CPT theorem.
