Sidney David Drell was an American theoretical physicist and arms control expert.
10 Facts About Sidney Drell
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Sidney Drell entered Princeton for the summer term in July 1943, and worked with Josef-Maria Jauch in his junior year and completing his senior thesis "Radiating Electrons" with John Archibald Wheeler.
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Sidney Drell earned his undergraduate degree in physics from Princeton University in 1946.
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Sidney Drell co-authored the textbooks Relativistic Quantum Mechanics and Relativistic Quantum Fields with James Bjorken.
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Sidney Drell was active as a scientific advisor to the US government, and was a founding member of the JASON Defense Advisory Group.
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Sidney Drell was on the board of directors of Los Alamos National Security, the company that operates the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
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Sidney Drell was an expert in the field of nuclear arms control and cofounder of the Center for International Security and Arms Control, now the Center for International Security and Cooperation.
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Sidney Drell was a Senior Fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution and a trustee Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.
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Sidney Drell was the father of Persis Drell, former head of SLAC national accelerator lab, former dean of the Stanford University School of Engineering, and now current provost of Stanford University; Joanna Drell, Professor of History and chair of the Department of History at the University of Richmond; and Daniel Drell, a program officer at the US Department of Energy.
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Sidney Drell died in December 2016 at his home in Palo Alto, California at the age of 90.