VITAE, PROFESSOR LOYAL DURAND

PRESENT POSITION:

Professor of Physics, University of Wisconsin, 1965--2000, Chair, 1969--71
      Professor Emeritus, 2000--

OTHER POSITIONS:

Coach, Yale lightweight crew: freshman crew 1953-55, varsity, 1955-57
      EARC champions, undefeated, 1955

Member, Institute for Advanced Study, 1957--59; September-December, 1975
      National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, 1957-59
Research Associate, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1959-61
Visiting Professor, University of Colorado, summers, 1960, 1961
Assistant Professor of Physics, Yale University, 1961-65
Visiting Staff Member, Theory Division, Los Alamos National
      Laboratory, January-May, 1976
Guest Scientist, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory,
      September 1982-May 1983
Faculty Associate, Argonne National Laboratory, 1984, 1985
Consultant, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1976-1997

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Theoretical physics, mostly high-energy physics, with an emphasis on elementary particle interactions including strong interactions, Higgs-boson physics, chiral interactions, and nonperturbative approaches to scattering and bound state problems; mathematical physics, special functions, semigroups and addition formulas, fractional Lie operators.

HONORS:

Fellow, American Physical Society
Member, of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society
Fellow, University of Wisconsin Teaching Academy
Winner of Chancellor's Teaching Award, 1997

Coaching honored by the Durand Cup rowing trophy
      In competition since 1958 among Yale-Dartmouth-Rutgers

EDUCATION:

B.S. (Physics) Yale University, 1953, Highest Honors
      Yale Club of New York Prize, 1950
      Skiddy Scholar, 1951-53
      Senior Mathematics Prize, 1953
      Phi Beta Kappa, 1953
 
M.S. (Physics) Yale University, 1954
      Sloane-Silliman Fellow, 1953-54
      Leigh Page Prize in Physics, 1954
 
Ph.D. (Physics) Yale University, 1957
      National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellow, 1954-56
      Sterling Fellow, 1956-57
      Sigma Xi, 1957

MEMBERSHIPS:

American Physical Society (Fellow)
American Mathematical Society
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Association of the University Professors
Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society
Phi Beta Kappa

PERSONAL:

Born May 19, 1931, Madison, Wisconsin
Married Bernice Black, 1970
Children (previous marriage): Travis, Tim, and Chris Durand

BIOGRAPHICAL RECOGNITIONS:

American Men and Women of Science
Who's Who in America
Who's Who in Science and Engineering

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