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Also known as Sidney David Drell, Sidney D. Drell

American physicist (1926–2016)

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David Sidney Drell (1926–2016) was an American physicist and teacher. Born in Atlantic City, he worked in particle physics, quantum electrodynamics, and nuclear weapons. He was employed by SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University. Drell received his education at Princeton University and the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign. His doctoral advisor was Sidney Dancoff.

He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Academia Europaea, and the American Philosophical Society. Drell was recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences, Macarthur Fellows, and National Medal of Science collections. He received the MacArthur Fellows Program award, the National Medal of Science, the Rumford Prize, and the Leo Szilard Lectureship Award. He died in Palo Alto.

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Person · Open Library

Born
1926
Works
17

Top works

  • Andrei Sakharov
  • The gravest danger
  • Implications of the Reykjavik summit on its twentieth anniversary
  • Electromagnetic structure of nucleons
  • The new terror

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Berlin

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Listeners
1
Total plays
1

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Quotes

  • Science knows no boundaries, and efforts to create barriers – whether to keep new ideas within or to prevent new ones from entering from the outside – have universally proved harmful to progress.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
David
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Atlantic City
Place of death
Palo Alto
Occupation
teacher
Languages spoken
English language
Doctoral advisor
Sidney Dancoff
Doctoral student
Michael Creutz
Field of work
nuclear weapon
Image
Sidney Drell.jpg
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date of birth
1926-09-13
date of death
2016-12-21
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