John Bahcall 1935-2005

摘要

John N Bahcall, a renowned leader in the fields of astrophysics and neutrino physics, passed away on 17 August 2005 from a rare blood disorder. He was 70 years old. Bahcall was a pioneer in the field of solar-neutrino studies, calculating neutrino fluxes and detection reactions that led to the original measurements by his long-time colleague Ray Davis and other subsequent measurements. His perseverance in resolving the flux deficit known as the "solar-neutrino problem" motivated the field and significantly advanced particle physics and solar physics. Bahcall was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, and educated at Louisiana State University, the University of California at Berkeley (AB, 1956), the University of Chicago (MS, 1957) and Harvard University (PhD, 1961). He was a research fellow at Indiana University from 1960 to 1962 before joining the faculty at Caltech. He became a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in 1968, and was named Richard Black Professor of Natural Sciences in 1997.