Physics Department Faculty:
George W. Brandenburg
Director of the Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology;Lecturer of Physics; Senior Research Fellow in Physics
PhD 1969, Harvard University
George Brandenburg is an experimental physicist working in the field of high energy elementary particles and is the director of Harvard's Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology (LPPC). He worked at Fermilab for many years on the Collider Detector (CDF) experiment, which in 1994 found the first evidence for the existence of the top quark. More recently he worked on the CLEO experiment at Cornell studying the properties of beauty quarks, and served as the co-spokesperson of the collaboration during 1997-99. He is currently working on the ATLAS experiment, which is being built for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. He is the U.S. coordinator for ATLAS muon chamber readout electronics, and is also working on the commissioning of the muon detector in anticipation of the first LHC collisions in 2007.