David H. Coward 1934-

Physicist, Emeritus

Dave Coward, January 2010
(SLAC AHRO) Dave Coward, January 2010

Professional and Biographical Information

  • B.S. Cornell University 1952
  • Ph. D. Physics Stanford University 1963
  • Student Associate, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    • Summer 1957
    • Summer 1958
  • Project M / SLAC 1963-
    • Permanent staff 2/1964-1999
    • Deputy Group Leader, SLAC-MIT Collaboration
    • Spectrometer Facilities Group (SFG) Leader 1969-1972
    • Recirculating Linear Accelerator Group (RLA) member 1972-1976
    • Physicist Emeritus 1999 -
  • CERN
    • Intersecting Storage Rings (ISR) Division 1976-1977
    • Scientific Associate 1986-1987
    • Group NA31 (Fermilab E731) 1989-1990

Honors and Awards

  • Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science 2009
  • Fellow, American Physical Society, 1983
  • Distinguished Alumni, Ridgewood High School, 2012 
  • European Physics Society High Energy and Particle Physics Prize, 2005 (joint)

Events

Eminent Physicist Dr. David Coward spoke to Ridgewood High School Students  October 18, 2017 (external link)

Publications

Archival Materials

David Coward  papers held by the SLAC Archives, History & Records Office are currently being processed, and are not yet open for research. SLAC staff may access descriptions of his papers by clicking this link(external link) and entering the name Coward in the search box at the upper right on that page. 

Dave Coward
Dave Coward (SU Physics Department)
Group celebrating Dick Taylor's Nobel Prize, 1990
Group celebrating Dick Taylor's Nobel Prize. Left to right: David Coward, Martin Breidenbach, Les Cottrell (kneeling), Elliott Bloom, Dick Taylor, Pief Panofsky, and Charles Jordan, 11/18/1990.  (Harvey Lynch/SLAC)
Dave Coward
Dave Coward (SU Physics Department)