George H Trilling was a Polish-born American particle physicist.
15 Facts About George Trilling
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George Trilling was director of the Physics Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory from 1984 until 1987.
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George Trilling was a principal proponent of the Superconducting Super Collider project and spokesperson for the Solenoidal Detector Collaboration.
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George Trilling was elected vice-president of the American Physical Society, beginning his term on 1 January 1999, and was president of the society in 2001.
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George Trilling was born in Bialystok, Poland, and his family emigrated to France a few months later, where they lived primarily in Nice.
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George Trilling did one year of postdoctoral studies at Caltech and then studied in France on a Fulbright Fellowship with Louis Leprince-Ringuet.
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Already as an undergraduate at Caltech, George Trilling worked in the laboratory of Carl Anderson, where cosmic rays were observed using cloud chambers.
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In 1957, Trilling joined the physics faculty at the University of Michigan, where he was a member of the group headed by Professor Donald A Glaser, inventor of the bubble chamber, the device that supplanted the cloud chamber.
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In 1959, Glaser moved to University of California, Berkeley, and recruited George Trilling to join him there as a tenured associate professor in 1960.
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When Glaser changed his research focus to biophysics in 1962, George Trilling assumed leadership of the group.
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In 1963, George Trilling joined forces with Gerson Goldhaber to form the George Trilling-Goldhaber Group.
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George Trilling contributed the tracking code that analyzed the outgoing particles from the electron-positron annihilation.
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George Trilling played a key role in measuring the life-time of B mesons, which turned out to be surprisingly long.
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George Trilling was Chair of the Physics Department at Berkeley from 1968 to 1972, and director of the LBNL Physics Division from 1984 to 1987.
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George Trilling was a Fellow of the American Physical Society, served as its president in 2001, and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1983 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1993.