Andrew Marienhoff Sessler (December 11, 1928 – April 17, 2014) was an American physicist, academic (University of California, Berkeley), former director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (1973–1980), humanitarian and former president (1998) of the American Physical Society.[1]
His areas of expertise were the physics of particle accelerators, particle physics and plasma physics. In addition to accelerator physics, he also published theoretical work on quantum-theoretical statistical mechanics, atomic physics and superfluidity. Sessler was also active in the study group of the National Academy of Sciences of the long-term effects of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and in an initiative group of APS against landmines. Sessler was a member of the American Committee for Peace in Chechnya.
Sessler, Andrew; Wilson, Edmund (2007). Engines of Discovery: A Century of Particle Accelerators. World Scientific. ISBN 9789812700704.[7] Sessler, Andrew (2014). 2nd edition. ISBN 978-981-4417-19-8; pbk{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
^"Andrew Sessler 1928-2014". American Physical Society. 21 April 2014. Retrieved 26 April 2014.
^"Andrew Sessler, 2013". U.S. Department of Energy. 8 April 2014. Retrieved 26 April 2014.
^"In Memoriam: Andrew Sessler, Former Laboratory Director, Acclaimed Physicist and Humanitarian". Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. 18 April 2014. Retrieved 26 April 2014.
^Sessler, A. M. (1953). Hyperfine structure of 3He. Columbia University Libraries (Thesis).
^"President Obama Names Scientists Bard and Sessler as Enrico Fermi Award Recipients" DOE Press Release: Jan 13, 2014.
^Thomas, Jeremy (18 April 2014). "Former Berkeley lab director Sessler dies at 85". San Jose Mercury News. Retrieved 26 April 2014.
^Suller, Victor P. "Review of Engines of Discovery: A Century of Particle Accelerators by Andrew Sessler and Edmund Wilson" (PDF). Journal of Synchrotron Radiation. 15: 109–110. doi:10.1107/S0909049507052521.
External links
Official website
E. J. N. Wilson, "Andrew M. Sessler", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences (2014)