Sam Bard Treiman was an American theoretical physicist who produced research in the fields of cosmic rays, quantum physics, plasma physics, and gravity physics.
18 Facts About Sam Treiman
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Sam Treiman made contributions to the understanding of the weak interaction and he and his students are credited with developing the Standard Model of elementary particle physics.
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Sam Treiman was a Higgins professor of physics at Princeton University, a member of the National Academy of Sciences and member of the JASON Defense Advisory Group.
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Sam Treiman was a student of Enrico Fermi and John Alexander Simpson Jr.
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Sam Treiman's parents, Abraham and Sarah, were Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe who emigrated to Chicago, where he was born on May 27,1925.
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Sam Treiman was educated in the Chicago public school system and, after graduating high school in 1942, he entered Northwestern University, electing to study chemical engineering.
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Sam Treiman received an Atomic Energy Commission predoctoral fellowship and in 1952 he was granted a PhD by the University of Chicago.
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Sam Treiman began teaching at Princeton in 1952 as an instructor.
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Sam Treiman spent his entire career at Princeton - associate professor, professor and Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics.
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Sam Treiman served as chair of the physics department and chair of the University Research Board.
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Sam Treiman made contributions to physics outside his professional role at Princeton.
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Sam Treiman, who did not want to leave Princeton, was able to help get the group started by taking several extended leaves of absence.
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Sam Treiman's Socratic teaching style enabled his students to gain valuable insights without having been spoon fed the results.
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Sam Treiman was known for his general wisdom as well as his expertise.
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Sam Treiman was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1963, and a member of the US National Academy of Sciences in 1972.
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Sam Treiman was awarded the Oersted medal by the American Association of Physics Teachers in 1995.
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Sam Treiman was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.
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Sam Treiman died of leukemia at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center on November 30,1999.