Michael J. Tannenbaum
Senior Physicist
Physics Department, 510C
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Upton, NY 11973-5000 USA
Tel: +1 (631) 344-3722
E-mail:mjt@bnl.gov
Michael J. Tannenbaum is Senior Physicist in the Physics Department at
Brookhaven National Laboratory, a position he has held since 1987. He
was born
in New York City and was educated in the public schools,
graduating from the Bronx High School of Science in 1955. He obtained
both his
undergraduate and graduate degrees at Columbia University in the City
of New
York, receiving the AB degree, Magna Cum Laude, from Columbia College
in June
1959, the MA in 1960, and the PhD in 1965. His thesis was `Muon-Proton
Elastic
Scattering with BeV Momentum Transfers' under the guidance of Professor
Leon
Lederman. After a postdoctoral appointment as Visiting Scientist at
CERN, the
European Centre for Nuclear Research, in Geneva, Switzerland, from
1965-1966, he
joined the faculty of Harvard University in Cambridge MA, where he
served as
Assistant Professor and Associate Professor until 1971. At that time he
returned to New York City as one of the founding members of the
Experimental
Physics Laboratory at the Rockefeller University, where he remained as
Associate Professor until March 1980. Recruited to Brookhaven National
Laboratory to ``help save Isabelle'', he was head of Planning and
Analysis in
the Magnet Division until October 1981, and then head of Superconductor
Procurement and Magnet Lamination Physics until May 1982, when he
returned to
physics research as a Physicist in the BNL Physics Department. He is
one of the founding members of the PHENIX Experiment at RHIC and the
RHIC Spin Collaboration. Dr.Tannenbaum
is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American
Association for the Advancement of Science and was an Alfred P. Sloan
Foundation Fellow in 1967-69. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma
Xi and the New York Academy of Sciences. His committee service includes
the Users Executive (1971-1973) and Program Advisory (1972-1975)
Committees of Fermilab; the Committee to Advise AUI Trustees on new BNL
Director (1981), the BNL Distinguished Lectureship Committee
(1991-1995, Chairman 1993-1995), the Executive Council of the
PHENIX Experiment at RHIC (1994-2003), and the Conseil Scientifique of
the Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet of the Ecole Polytechnique in
Paliseau, Paris, France (2002-2005). Dr. Tannenbaum is co-author of
over
250 scientific papers in journals, books and conference proceedings. He
is listed in American Men and Women of Science, Who's Who in America
and Who's Who in the World.