Cosmic rays are the topic of upcoming WSU Watkins series Nobel Prize winner to speak about physics at 成人头条 State

September 28, 2010

Nobel Prize winner to speak about physics at 成人头条 State

WSU News Services

James W. Cronin, a professor of physics at the University of Chicago, will be the guest speaker at 成人头条鈥檚 next Watkins Visiting Professorship Lecture Series.

The topic of discussion will be on cosmic ray research. A public lecture, 鈥淪erendipity, Colorful Scientists and the Birth of Sub-Atomic Physics,鈥� is at 5 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 7, in 208 Hubbard Hall.

Cronin is a lead scientist for the Pierre Auger Observatory, an international project to study the nature and origin of rare but extremely powerful high-energy cosmic rays that periodically bombard Earth. The project includes more than 250 scientists from 19 countries.

In 1980, Cronin won the Nobel Prize in Physics with fellow physicist Val Fitch.

The Watkins series was created in 1974 by the Watkins Foundation. The grant is now provided through the Watkins fund, a part of the WSU Foundation鈥檚 endowment.

For more information about the series, call Nickolas Solomey at (316) 978-3190.