P. Buford Price
Paul Buford Price (1932 – 2021
Biography
In the early part of his career, he codeveloped techniques to record the motions of energetic charged particles in solids, in particular plastics.[3]
The technique involves the fact that ionizing particles that traverse materials such as
A more practical application is the creation of
Use of the technique in an experiment carried by a high-altitude balloon in 1975 resulted in the detection of one highly anomalous cosmic ray particle that traversed a stack of 32 sheets of Lexan plastic. The particle was tentatively identified as a magnetic monopole in 1975 by Price and some colleagues.[4][5] That conclusion was withdrawn in 1978 after further analysis led the Price group to conclude that the particle did not have the appropriate charge to be a monopole,[6] though leaving open the possibility that a supermassive magnetic monopole might have caused the track. However, Luis W. Alvarez proposed that this track can be explained with a platinum atom decaying into osmium and later into tantalum.
Price was a founding member of the team that constructed the
In 1971, he received the
References
- ^ a b Silvia Bravo (January 4, 2022). "P. Buford Price, a pioneer of neutrino astronomy, died on December 28, 2021". Ice Cube Collaboration.
- ^ "Paul Buford Price Biography". American Institute of Physics.
- ISBN 0-520-02665-9.
- ^ Time magazine, August 25, 1975, "Bring it Back Alive"
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- doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.18.1382.)
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link - ^ Price, P. Bufford. "Research Interests". Berkeley University Physics Department. Archived from the original on 2007-08-19. Retrieved 2008-11-16.
- PMID 10655516.
- ^ "The Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award - Robert L. Fleischer, P. Buford Price, Robert M. Walker, 1971". US Department of Energy Office of Science. Archived from the original on 2008-09-21. Retrieved 2008-11-16.
- ^ "physics@berkeley: P. Buford Price". Berkeley University Physics Department. Retrieved 2008-11-16.