Richard Dryden Field Jr. (born April 13, 1944) is an emeritus professor of physics at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida.[1] He is known particularly for his contributions to the phenomenology of particle production in high-energy particle accelerators.
Richard D. Field Jr. | |
|---|---|
| Born | Richard Dryden Field Jr. April 13, 1944 Pasadena, California, U.S. |
| Nationality | USA |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Mother | Margaret Field |
| Relatives | Sally Field (sister) Peter Craig (nephew) Eli Craig (nephew) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | University of Florida |
| Doctoral advisor | J. David Jackson |
| Doctoral students | Stephen Wolfram |
Education and personal life
editField was born in Pasadena, California, the son of actress Margaret Field and Richard Dryden Field, an Army officer. He was the stepson of actor/stuntman Jock Mahoney. His sister is Academy Award-winning actress Sally Field. Richard Field obtained his undergraduate education in physics at the University of California, Berkeley on a gymnastics scholarship,[2] and continued with his PhD in 1971 under the supervision of John David Jackson.
Research
editStarting in 1971, he did post-doctoral work at Brookhaven National Laboratory. In 1973 he moved to California Institute of Technology to work with Nobel laureate Richard Feynman. It was there that he did his most-cited work, producing the "Field-Feynman" Monte Carlo used to compare the production of observable particles arising from the fragmentation of quarks and gluons in different particle accelerator environments. Two papers from this work,[3][4] each with over 1000 citations, continue to be referenced today. [5]
During this time he served as the PhD thesis advisor to computer-scientist/physicist Stephen Wolfram, who is CEO of Wolfram Research and was considered a physics prodigy in his student years. In 1980, Field moved to the University of Florida as a professor and, later, emeritus professor.[citation needed]
Honors
editHe was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1987, "For contributions to the application of the Quantum Chromodynamic theory of quarks and gluons to hadron hadron collisions and the concept of parton fragmentation"[6]
References
edit- ^ Rick Field profile, University of Florida website; accessed December 12, 2021.
- ^ "Rick Field". 14 December 1986. Retrieved November 19, 2021.
- ^ Field, R.D.; Feynman, R.P. (1977). "Quark Elastic Scattering as a Source of High Transverse Momentum Mesons". Physical Review Letters. D15 (9): 2590–2616. Bibcode:1977PhRvD..15.2590F. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.15.2590.
- ^ Field, R.D.; Feynman, R.P. (1978). "A Parametrization of the Properties of Quark Jets". Nuclear Physics. B136 (1): 1–76. Bibcode:1978NuPhB.136....1F. doi:10.1016/0550-3213(78)90015-9.
- ^ "INSPIREHEP". Retrieved November 19, 2021.
- ^ "APS Fellow Archive". APS. Retrieved November 19, 2021.
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