Dick Carrigan is a Guest Scientist in the Accelerator Division at the Fermi National Accel­era­tor Laboratory pursuing an on-going physics program there. He is also interested in investigations of the possibility of life and intelligence in the Universe. Prior to retiring Carrigan was a member of the Fermilab Beams Division where he worked on advanced accelerator projects. From 1994 to 1997 he was Associate Head of the Research Facilities Department in the Fermilab Research Division. During the 1992-1993 period he was detailed to the Division of High Energy Physics of the U. S. Department of Energy.  Prior to that he was Head of the Fermilab Office of Research and Technol­ogy Applica­tions in the Director’s Office and coordi­nator for the Fermilab Industrial Affil­iates. In this position he was responsi­ble for facilitating the transfer of technology developed at Fermilab out to wider use.  He was active in Fermilab public information activities for many years, including service as the correspondent to the CERN Courier.  At Fermilab he also served at various times as Assistant Director, Director of Personnel Ser­vices, Assistant Head of the Research Division, and Administra­tive Head of the Physics Depart­ment.

Carrigan has been involved in several programs to stimulate the development of high technology industry in Illinois.  He also served a key role in a vigorous attempt to locate the Space Telescope Science Institute for the Space Telescope Program in Illinois.  From 1990 to 1993 he was concurrently an Adjunct Professor of Physics at the State University of New York in Albany.

Carrigan is an active physicist.  His major technical interests have included channeling of high energy particles, hyperon physics, the magnetic monopole conjec­ture, high energy scatter­ing, pi and mu mesic atoms, photo production, and facility plann­ing.  He has been associated with several joint USA‑USSR col­laborations studying high energy particle behavior at Fermilab and in Russia.  He is the author of more than a hundred scientific publications and the author or editor of a number of books and monographs including “Non-Accelerator Astroparticle Physics” (World Scientific 2002 with G. Giacomelli, A. Masiero, and N. Paver), “Particles and Forces: At the Heart of Matter” (Freeman 1990 with W. P. Trower), “­Particle Physics in the Cosmos” (Freeman 1989 with W. P. Trower), “Relativi­stic Chan­neling" (Ple­num 1986, with J. Ellison), “Magnet­ic Mono­poles" (Ple­num 1983, with W.P. Trower), “The State of Parti­cle Accelera­tors and High Energy Physics” and “Physics of High Energy Parti­cle Accel­era­tors" (AIP 1982, with F. Huson and M. Month). Since 1995 he has been a co-director of the summer school on non-accelerator particle astrophysics at the International Centre for Theoretical physics in Trieste, Italy.

He is a member of Sigma Xi, the American Physical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Carrigan was born in Miami, Florida and attended schools in Gainesville, Florida and Ithaca, New York.  He en­rolled in the University of Florida, then received a BS degree in physics from the University of Illinois.  He served in the Army Ordnance Corps at White Sands Proving Ground working on systems analysis for the Corporal and Nike missiles.  At the same time he was enrolled in the graduate physics program of New Mexico State University.  After military service he entered the Graduate College of the University of Illinois and received an MS degree and a Ph.D. from that institution.  During part of the period he held an ESSO Industrial Fellowship.  His thesis was in the area of high energy physics.  He then joined Carnegie‑Mellon Univer­sity where he was a research physicist and assistant professor of physics.  Concurrently he was a visiting physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory.  He spent a year on leave from Car­negie-Mellon University as a Senior Fulbright Research Fellow at the Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron in Hamburg, Germany.  After returning from Germany he joined the staff of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory as a physicist.

He is married to Nancy Jean Carrigan a well-known Chicago artist and poet.  They have two grown children, Caroline and Steve. Steve is married to Lisa. Brooke is their daughter. Dick and  and Nancy have published two novels, "The Siren Stars" and "Minotaur in a Mush­room Maze." They live at 2S526 Williams Road, Warrenville, Illinois.

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