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Sidney Drell was born on 13 September, 1926 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, U.S., is an American physicist (1926–2016). Discover Sidney Drell's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 90 years old?

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Age 90 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 13 September, 1926
Birthday 13 September
Birthplace Atlantic City, New Jersey, U.S.
Date of death 21 December, 2016
Died Place Palo Alto, California, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1926

Sidney David Drell (September 13, 1926 – December 21, 2016) was an American theoretical physicist and arms control expert.

At the time of his death, he was professor emeritus at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) and senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.

Drell was a noted contributor in the fields of quantum electrodynamics and high-energy particle physics.

The Drell–Yan process, which was used to discover the Higgs boson, is partially named for him.

Born in Atlantic City, New Jersey on September 13, 1926, Drell graduated from Atlantic City High School in 1943, at the age of sixteen.

1943

Drell entered Princeton for the summer term in July 1943, and worked with Josef-Maria Jauch in his junior year and completing his senior thesis "Radiating Electrons" with John Archibald Wheeler.

1946

He earned his undergraduate degree in physics from Princeton University in 1946.

1947

He was awarded a masters in physics in 1947 and received his PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1949.

He co-authored the textbooks Relativistic Quantum Mechanics and Relativistic Quantum Fields with James Bjorken.

Drell was active as a scientific advisor to the U.S. government, and was a founding member of the JASON Defense Advisory Group.

He was also on the board of directors of Los Alamos National Security, the company that operates the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

He was an expert in the field of nuclear arms control and cofounder of the Center for International Security and Arms Control, now the Center for International Security and Cooperation.

He was a Senior Fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution and a trustee Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.

He was the father of Persis Drell, former head of SLAC national accelerator lab, former dean of the Stanford University School of Engineering, and (through Fall 2023) provost of Stanford University; Joanna Drell, Professor of History and chair of the Department of History at the University of Richmond; and Daniel Drell, a program officer at the U.S. Department of Energy.

2016

Sidney Drell died in December 2016 at his home in Palo Alto, California at the age of 90.