Muzaffer Atac

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Muzaffer Atac
Born
Muzaffer Atac

(1933-08-24)24 August 1933
VLPCs and other detectors
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsFermilab
UCLA
Doctoral advisorHans Frauenfelder

Muzaffer Atac (Ataç, 24 August 1933 – 7 December 2010) was a Turkish-American physicist who was one of the founding scientists of Fermilab and performed important work with

visible light photon counters and other detectors for particle physics.[1]

Early life and career

Muzaffer Atac was born on August 24, 1933, in Kemaliye, a small village in Turkey. He attended high school in Ankara, Turkey[2] and received his BS in physics from Ankara University in 1957.[1] Atac married his wife, Ayfer Temiztaş,[1] on March 21, 1958.[2] They had three children.[1]

From 1959 to 1961, Atac was employed by the Minerals Searching and Investigating Institute in Ankara.

University of Illinois with the support of a NATO fellowship. He received his MS in physics from this institution in 1963. Atac completed his PhD thesis "Time Reversal Violation in Electromagnetic Interactions" under the supervision of Hans Frauenfelder at the University of Illinois.[1] He returned to Ankara University for eight months as part of his PhD work[2] and received his PhD degree from Ankara University.[1]

Fermilab and later career

On September 3, 1968, Atac began working for the United States Department of Energy's National Accelerator Laboratory, which would later become Fermilab. Atac moved to Wheaton, Illinois, in January 1971, where he would remain for the rest of his life.[1]

While at Fermilab, Atac performed groundbreaking work with gas calorimeters, wire drift chambers, and high sensitivity solid state photon detectors, and he received several patents for his work.

visible light photon counters with Rockwell International. In 1989, he became an adjunct professor of physics at the University of California, Los Angeles, and he became an adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Dallas in 1990. He began working on cancer research at the University of California, Irvine in 1996. Beginning in 1995, Atac worked on developing a Silicon Pixels Vertex Tracking System for the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider.[1] Atac was author or co-author on over 500 publications.[3]

Atac retired from Fermilab in June 2008 and died in his home on December 7, 2010.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Finding Aid to the Muzaffer Atac Papers". Fermilab History and Archives Project, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. 2013. Retrieved 13 February 2013.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Bob Goldsborough (16 December 2010). "Muzaffer Atac, 1931-2010". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 13 February 2013.
  3. ^ "Atac, Muzaffer publication list". INSPIRE. Retrieved 13 February 2013.

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