William Chinowsky is an American astrophysicist. He is a professor emeritus at the

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Biography

Chinowsky received his A.B. and Ph.D. from

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. He worked as a staff physicist at

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before joining the Berkeley faculty in 1961. He served as a program director of the

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from 1992 to 1996 and was affiliated with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He works in observational high-energy neutrino astrophysics. Among his students were Carl Haber, a

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known for his work in audio preservation, and

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, professor at the

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. Chinowsky received two Guggenheim Fellowships, one in 1966 for experiments in elementary particle interactions, and a second in 1978. In 1987, he was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society for "contributions to the discovery of numerous elementary particles and the determination of their properties."

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