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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