Fermilab
Dick Carrigan is a
Scientist Emeritus in the Accelerator
Division
at the Fermi
National Accelerator
Laboratory (Fermilab) 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. From 1995 to 2004 he was a
co-director of the summer school on non-accelerator
particle
astrophysics at the International Centre
for Theoretical Physics in Trieste,
Italy.
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.
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Science
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, SETI, 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
2005 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).
He
is a member of Sigma Xi, the American Physical Society, and the
American
Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Personal
Carrigan
was born in Miami, Florida
and attended P. K. Yonge
Laboratory School in Gainesville, Florida and schools in 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 Missile Range
working on systems analysis in Headquarters 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 Chicago artist and poet. They
have two grown children, Caroline and Steve. Steve is
married to Lisa. Brooke is their daughter. Caroline is married
to Steve Levy. Jake is Steve Levy's son. Dick and Nancy have published
two novels, The
Siren Stars
and "Minotaur in a Mushroom Maze." They live in Warrenville,
Illinois and
Aspen, Colorado.
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