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Herman Winick
SLAC

Citation:

"For tireless and effective personal leadership in defense of human rights of scientists throughout the world"

Background:

Herman Winick, A.B. Columbia College, 1953, received his Ph.D. from Columbia University, 1957, and is a Fellow of the APS and AAAS.

Herman Winick played a major role in developing synchrotron radiation sources and research at Stanford and around the world.

After positions at the University of Rochester and Harvard University, in 1973 he led construction of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Project.He served as Deputy Director until semi-retirement in 1998.

His professional work includes over 100 scientific articles, editing two books. He has served on many committees and editorial boards.

His work on wiggler and undulator magnets as advanced radiation sources has received awards, including the DOE Distinguished Associate Award.In 1992 he initiated studies of the Linac Coherent Light Source Project to construct an x-ray laser at SLAC.The LCLS began operation in 2009.

He has had extended stays abroad and continues to work on the UNESCO-sponsored SESAME Project, modeled on CERN, which he was instrumental in initiating in 1997.His strong interest in human rights and international science led to chairing the APS Committee on International Freedom of Scientists and the Forum on International Physics.In 2005 he received the New York Academy of Sciences Heinz R. Pagels Human Rights of Scientists Award.

Selection Committee:

Joel Primack, Chair, M.B. Tsang, J. Gallardo, Y. Orlov

Prize Recipient

Herman Winick SLAC

Herman Winick
SLAC