Russell Shaffer

Department of Physics
Lehigh University
16 Memorial Dr. East
Bethlehem, PA 18015
610-758-3927
Email: ras3@lehigh.edu

EDUCATION:
B.S., Drexel University , 1956
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University , 1962

EXPERIENCE:
Research Associate, Vanderbilt University, 1962-64
Summer Institute in Theoretical Physics, University of Wisconsin , 1964
Assist. Prof., Lehigh University, 1964-67; Assoc. Prof., 67-
Summer Institute in Theoretical Physics, Univ. of Colorado , 1965
Research Participant, Oak Ridge National Lab., Summer 1966
Research Participant, Argonne National Lab., Summer 1969

AWARDS AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Scholarship, Drexel University, 1951-53
National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship, 1958-61
Sigma Xi; Phi Kappa Phi
American Assoc. of Physics Teachers, Central Pennsylvania Section: Officer, 1980-83 and 1986-89
Advisor, Society of Physics Students, Lehigh Univ. , 1970-
Physics Colloquium Chairman, 1991-
Seminars and Colloquia: Lehigh Univ. (various, including February 1998); Lebanon Valley College, 1992; Dickinson College, 1982; Muhlenberg College, 1983
Paper: CPS-AAPT, 1986 “Halley's Comet: A Poor Apparition”
Manuscript Review: Publisher, atomic- and nuclear-physics text, 1987

TEACHING AREAS:
General physics, atomic and nuclear physics, classical mechanics, quantum theory, elementary-particle theory

RESEARCH:
Theory of elementary-particle interactions (weak and electromagnetic interactions), lepton physics.

INTERESTS:
Political science and economics; fitness.

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