Stuart Jay Freedman | |
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| Born | January 13, 1944 Hollywood, California, U.S. |
| Died | November 10, 2012 (aged 68) Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley (BS, PhD) |
| Awards | Elected to National Academy of Sciences (2001) Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics (2007) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | neutrino physics, nuclear physics, weak interaction physics |
| Institutions | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory University of California, Berkeley |
| Thesis | Experimental Test of Local Hidden-Variable Theories (1972) |
| Doctoral advisor | Eugene Commins |
Stuart Jay Freedman (January 13, 1944 – November 10, 2012) was an American physicist, known for his experiment testing Bell's inequality proposed to him by John Clauser at the University of California, Berkeley as well as for his contributions to nuclear and particle physics, particularly weak interaction physics. He was a graduate of Berkeley, receiving a Bachelor of Science in 1965 and his PhD in physics in 1972 under Eugene Commins. While at Berkeley, he worked with fellow graduate student Steven Chu. He was also recipient of 2007 Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics.[1]
He held positions at Princeton University, Stanford University, Argonne National Laboratory, the University of Chicago, and the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.[2]