Paul Grannis


Paul Dutton Grannis is an American physicist.
Grannis received the B. Eng. Phys., with Distinction, from Cornell University in 1961 and Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley in 1965 under the supervision of Owen Chamberlain with thesis Measurement of the Polarization Parameter in Proton-Proton Scattering from 1.7 to 6.1 BeV. Since 1966 Grannis has been at Stony Brook University where he is currently Distinguished Professor emeritus and Research Professor. He has been a visiting scientist at CERN, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Fermilab, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, University College London and Imperial College London.
From 2001 to 2005, Grannis was the chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Stony Brook University.
Grannis has worked to bring an electron positron collider capable of studying the Higgs boson and related questions regarding electroweak symmetry breaking since 1998. He has served as leader or member of the US group advocating for the linear collider ; the International Linear Collider Steering Committee ; the panel that established the parameters and scope of the International Linear Collider ; the panel that recommended the technology choice for the ILC ; the search for the director of the Global Design Effort, the Linear Collider Steering Group of the Americas, and the panel to select the experimental detectors for the ILC. From 2005 to 2007 he served as Program Manager and Scientific Advisor for the Office of High Energy Physics of the US Department of Energy. Since 2013 he has served on the Americas Linear Collider Committee.
Grannis' autobiography, appeared in Annual Reviews of Nuclear and Particle Physics, 74, 1.

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