Gary J. Feldman is an American particle physicist who works on physics beyond the

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with the

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experiment based at Fermilab.

Early life and education

Feldman was born in Cheyenne, Wyoming to Polish immigrants and was raised in South Bend, Indiana. His father immigrated to the United States as a child shortly after World War I. Feldman's father attended college at the

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and received his medical training at the University of Basel. Feldman developed an interest in physics in high school after attending an open house at the University of Notre Dame. He decided to start college as a physics major with the condition that he study whatever was most interesting to him. He claims he "never found anything that interests me more". Feldman moved to Harvard for graduate school, where he attained his

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Career

After graduate school Feldman moved to SLAC in 1971, where he stayed until 1990 upon moving back to

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as professor. Feldman was a spokesperson for

from its design to early data-taking phases, spanning 11 years. Feldman now serves as emeritus Frank B. Bird, Jr. Professor of Science at

and continues work on the

experiment.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Feldman, Gary Living people University of Chicago alumni Harvard University alumni Year of birth missing (living people)