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Robert Kemp Adair (* 14. August 1924 in Fort Wayne, Indiana; † 28. September 2020 in Hamden, Connecticut) war ein US-amerikanischer Physiker, der sich mit Elementarteilchenphysik, Kernphysik und Biophysik befasste.
Sir Robert Adair (* 24. Mai 1763; † 3. Oktober 1855 in London) war ein britischer Diplomat. Leben. Adair, Verwandter und Parteigenosse des Politikers Charles James Fox, studierte an den Universitäten von Westminster und Göttingen.
Robert K. Adair was a renowned particle physicist who studied weak interactions, strangeness quantum number, and bubble chamber techniques. He also wrote books on the physics of baseball and low-level electromagnetic radiation, and was a National Academy of Sciences member and a Yale professor.
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Adair served in the European theatre after volunteering for World War II and was awarded a Purple Heart and Bronze star. After achieving a doctorate in experimental nuclear physics at the University of Wisconsin he worked at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) in Long Island. In 1959 he joined the faculty at Yale, serving as chair of the Departmen...
Adair, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, was known for authoring The Physics of Baseball as well as a paper titled The Crack of the Bat: The Acoustics of the Bat Hitting the Ball. His studies into baseball stemmed from a request from former Yale President A. Bartlett Giamattito better characterize the scientific significance of corking ...
The Crack of the Bat, the Curve of the BallReview at The New York TimesRobert Adair was a renowned particle physicist and a Sterling Professor Emeritus of Physics at Yale University. He died in 2020 at the age of 96 and was known for his work on weak interaction and his book \"The Physics of Baseball\".
Robert Kemp Adair (* 14. August 1924 in Fort Wayne, Indiana [1]; † 28. September 2020 in Hamden, Connecticut) war ein US-amerikanischer Physiker, der sich mit Elementarteilchenphysik, Kernphysik und Biophysik befasste. Werdegang.
12. Jan. 2024 · A tribute to the late physicist Robert K. Adair, who challenged the claims of health hazards from weak electromagnetic fields. The author recounts their personal and professional interactions and praises Adair's integrity, rigor, and clarity.
