Matthew Sands | |
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 Matthew L. Sands Los Alamos ID badge photo | |
| Born | October 20, 1919 |
| Died | September 13, 2014 (aged 94) |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Clark University Rice University |
| Known for | Co-author of The Feynman Lectures on Physics |
| Awards | Robert R. Wilson Prize (1998) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Accelerator physics |
| Institutions | |
| Thesis | The meson component of cosmic radiation (1948) |
| Doctoral advisor | Bruno Rossi |
Matthew Linzee Sands (October 20, 1919 – September 13, 2014) was an American physicist and educator best known as a co-author of the Feynman Lectures on Physics. A graduate of Rice University, Sands served with the Naval Ordnance Laboratory and the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II.
After the war, Sands studied cosmic rays for his doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) under the supervision of Bruno Rossi. Sands went to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1950, and helped build and operate its 1.5 GeV electron synchrotron. He became deputy director for the construction and early operation of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in 1963. Sands later joined the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) as a professor of physics, and served as its Vice Chancellor for Science from 1969 to 1972. In 1998, The American Physical Society awarded him the Robert R. Wilson Prize "for his many contributions to accelerator physics and the development of electron-positron and proton colliders."[1]