Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Office: 319 Physics Building
Phone: +1 (530) 752-1780
Fax: +1 (530)752-4717
Email: rllander@ucdavis.edu

Personal Professional Website: http://lander.physics.ucdavis.edu

Research Interests:

Experimental high-energy particle physics; detector development for particle physics.

Research Areas

• High Energy Experiment

Career History

• Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1957
• Staff Physicist, Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, 1957-1960
• Research Specialist "A", The Boeing Company, 1960-1961
• Assistant Research Physicist, University of California, San Diego, 1961-1963
• Associate Research Physicist, University of California, San Diego, 1963-1966
• Associate Research Physicist, University of California, San Diego, 1963-1966
• Associate Professor, University of California, Davis, 1967-1971
• Professor, University of California, Davis, 1971-Present

Honors

• Fellow, American Physical Society
• 2013 European Physical Society High Energy and Particle Physics Prize, for an outstanding contribution to High Energy Physics, awarded to the ATLAS and CMS collaborations, “for the discovery of a Higgs boson, as predicted by the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism”.
• 2019 High Energy and Particle Physics Prize of the EPS for an outstanding contribution to High Energy Physics, awarded to the CDF and D0 Collaborations, for the discovery of the top quark and the detailed measurement of its properties.