Stuart Jay Freedman (January 13, 1944 – November 10, 2012) was an American physicist, known for his work on a Bell test experiment with

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at the

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as well as for his contributions to nuclear and particle physics, particularly weak interaction physics. He was a graduate of

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, receiving a Bachelor of Science in 1965 and his PhD in physics in 1972 under Eugene Commins. While at Berkeley, he worked with fellow graduate student

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. He held positions at

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, the

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, and the

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. In memory of his contributions, the

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(APS) established an award in his name, the Stuart Jay Freedman Award in Experimental Nuclear Physics. He was elected a Fellow of the APS in 1984 for "important studies of weak interactions phenomena in nuclei." (search on year 1984 and institution University of California, Berkeley)

References

External links

R. G Hamish Robertson, "Stuart Jay Freedman", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences (2014)
1944 births 2012 deaths 21st-century American physicists 20th-century American physicists Fellows of the American Physical Society Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences {{US-physicist-stub