Essay: Bob Siemann and the meson production by polarized photons

Richard Talman ^*,†
Laboratory of Elementary-Particle Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA

Received 13 October 2008; published 4 December 2008

©2008 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.11.120002
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.11.120002
PACS: 01.60.+q

^* talman@mail.lepp.cornell.edu
^† Richard M. Talman is Professor of Physics at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. After receiving a B. A and M. A. at the University of Western Ontario, he received his Ph. D. at the California Institute of Technology in 1963. Since then he has been at Cornell, accepting a full professorship for Physics in 1971. He has spent terms as visiting scientist at Stanford(2), CERN(2), Berkeley(2), and Saskatchewan, and served as leader of the Instrumentation and Diagnostics Group at the SSC project in Dallas. He has given courses on accelerators at Stanford, Chicago, Austin, Rice, and Yale. Initially a particle physics experimentalist, Professor Talman has been engaged in the design of a series of accelerators, with recent emphasis on their use for x-ray production.