Martin Breidenbach, 1943 -
Professor of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Emeritus
Professional and Biographical Information
Martin Breidenbach completed his PhD at MIT in 1970. He then visited CERN in Europe before joining SLAC and Stanford in 1972,where he became professor of particle physics and astrophysics in 1989. Breidenbach is a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) and recipient of the 2000 APS Panofsky Prize. He spent most of his career working on particle physics research with electron-positron colliders. He was SLAC's lead for the early 21st-century international EXO-200 neutrino experiment. After his official retirement, Breidenbach kept following his passion for science, pursuing projects that aim to develop new collider concepts and improve our understanding of the human brain.
Events and Photos
- Martin Breidenbach Symposium: Adventures of a Particle Physicist, February 7, 2020: Video
- SLAC Celebrates 50 years of Quarks Special Colloquium, October 14, 2019
- Golden Age of Quarks video by Farrin Abbott, 2019
Awards and Honors
- Fellow, American Physical Society, 1985
- Panofsky Prize, American Physical Society, 2000
Publications
- Inelastic Electron Proton Scattering at High Momentum Transfer. May 1970 Report No. MIT-2098-635 (Dissertation)
- InSPIRE HEP
- ResearchGate
- Google Scholar
- IEEE Explore
- ORCID
Presentations
- Smaller than Small: The Discovery of Quarks with Dr. Martin Breidenbach. EarSnacks, January 19, 2022
- Early Days at SLAC: The Quark Discoveries. 14 October 2019 Quarks @ 50 Symposium
- Symposium on the Quark Discovery -- 50 Years MIT October 25, 2019. Session 1
Archival Materials
Martin Breidenbach 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 and entering his last name in the search box at the upper right on that page.
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