Gary J Feldman is an American particle physicist who works on neutrino physics with the NOvA experiment based at Fermilab.
12 Facts About Gary Feldman
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Gary Feldman's father immigrated from Poland to the United States as a child shortly after World War I Feldman's father attended college at the City University of New York and received his medical training at the University of Basel.
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Gary Feldman developed an interest in physics in high school after attending an open house at the University of Notre Dame.
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Gary Feldman decided to start college as a physics major with the condition that he study whatever was most interesting to him.
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Gary Feldman moved to Harvard for graduate school, where he attained his PhD.
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Gary Feldman participated in the Mark 1 experiment at SPEAR, which was responsible for two Nobel Prizes: one for the discovery of the charm quark and the other for the discovery of the tau lepton.
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Gary Feldman was a co-spokesperson for the Mark 2 experiment at the Stanford Linear Collider.
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In 1990 Gary Feldman moved back to Harvard as a professor.
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Gary Feldman participated in the NOMAD experiment at CERN and the MINOS experiment at Fermilab.
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Gary Feldman was a co-spokesperson for the NOvA experiment at Fermilab from its design to early data-taking phases, spanning 11 years.
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Gary Feldman chaired the Harvard Physics Department from 1994 to 1997.
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Gary Feldman is a fellow of the American Physical Society and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.