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Andrew Marienhoff Sessler (December 11, 1928 – April 17, 2014) was an American physicist, academic (
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), former director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (1973–1980), humanitarian and former president (1998) of the
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.


Biography

Sessler was born in
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in 1928. He was educated at
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(B.A. in mathematics) and
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(Ph.D. in physics) with dissertation ''Hyperfine structure of 3He''. From 1954 to 1959, he was a member of the faculty at
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before moving to the
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where he served as Lab Director in 1973-80. His areas of expertise were the physics of particle accelerators, particle physics and plasma physics. In addition to accelerator physics, he also published theoretical work on quantum-theoretical statistical mechanics, atomic physics and superfluidity. Sessler was also active in the study group of the
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of the long-term effects of the atomic bombing of
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and
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, and in an initiative group of APS against landmines. Sessler was a member of the American Committee for Peace in Chechnya. In 1970, he became an Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award laureate. On January 13, 2014, Sessler and Allen J. Bard were awarded the
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. Sessler lived in
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. He died in 2014 after a long illness.


Books

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See also

* List of members of the National Academy of Sciences (Physics)


References


External links


Official website

E. J. N. Wilson, "Andrew M. Sessler", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences (2014)
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