Samuel Tabor

Office Address:

Samuel L. Tabor

Department of Physics

Florida State University

216 Keen Building

Tallahassee, FL 32306-3016

Phone: (850) 644-5528

Fax: (850) 644-4478

E-mail: Tabor@nucott.physics.fsu.edu

Position:

Professor

Education:

BS: Tulane Univesity, 1967
MS: Stanford University, 1968
PhD: Stanford University, 1972

Research Interest:

Experimental nuclear physics, especially structure of nuclei at high angular momentum and far from stability.

Courses Taught This Year:

PHY2048C - Introductory Physics with Calculus

PHY 2049C - Introductory Physics with Calculus

PHY 3098 - Reading in Physics

Related Activities:

Coordinator for Physics Open House, February 17, 2001

Faculty advisor to Society of Physics Students

Personal Data:

Born: June 10, 1945

Family: Michelle Boisseau Tabor, wife

Employment History:

1972-75: Research Associate, Univ. of Pennsylvania

1975-77: Research Associate, Argonne National Lab.

1977-79: Sr. Research Associate, Univ. of Maryland

1979-83: Asst. Professor, Florida State University

1983-88: Assoc. Professor, Florida State University

1988-present: Professor, Florida State University

1997-present: Director, Superconducting Accelerator Lab.

Professional Activities:

American Physical Society

Sigma Xi

Phi Beta Kappa

Fellowships & Honors Held:

International House Scholarship, 1963-67

Woodrow Wilson Honorary Fellowship, 1967-68

N.S.F. Predoctoral Fellowship, 1967-69

PAI Award for Excellence in Teaching and Research, 1997-98

 

Advanced Degree Students:

Leon Theisen, Ph.D., 1981, Bellcore

George Neuschaefer, Ph.D., 1984, Los Alamos National Lab.

Uwe Huettmeier, Ph.D., 1987, Private business

Carl Gross, Ph.D., 1987, Oak Ridge National Lab.

Frank Moore, Ph.D., 1988, Argonne National Lab.

Tim Johnson, Ph.D., 1993, Paranet, Inc.

Phillip Womble, Ph.D., 1993, Western Kentucy, University.

Jimmy Holcomb, Ph.D., 1993, Lockheed-Martin Information Systems

Victor Wood, M.S., 1994, Private business

Glen Johns, Ph.D., 1996, Los Alamos National Lab.

Bob Kaye, Ph.D., 1998, Purdue University, Calumet

Geoff Solomon, Ph.D.,  1998, Coleman Aerospace

Matt Cooper, Ph.D. Candidate

John Pavan, Ph.D. Candidate

Mathis Wiedeking, in progress

Sample Publications:

"Competing single-particle and collective structures in 86Nb"

S.L. Tabor, J.Doring, G.D. Johns, G.N. Sylvan, C.J. Gross, Y.A. Akovali, C. Baktash, D.W. Stracener, P.-F. Hua, M. Korolija, D.R. LaFosse, D.G Sarantites, F.E. Durham, I.Y. Lee, A. Macchiavelli, W. Rathbun, and A. Vandermolen, Phys. Rev. C 56, 142 (1997)

"Collective behavior in 78Rb"

R.A. Kaye, L.A. Riley, G.Z. Solomon, S.L. Tabor, and P. Semmes, Phys. Rev. C 58, 3228 (1998)

"Intruder structures in 75Se"

G.Z. Solomon, G.D. Johns, R.A. Kaye, and S.L. Tabor, Phys. Rev. C 59, 1175 (1999)

"Parity measurements in odd-odd 86Nb"

M.W. Cooper, D.J. Hartley, R.A. Kaye, and S.L. Tabor, Phys. Rev. C 59, 2269 (1999)

"Band terminations in the valence space of 86Zr"

J. Döring, Y.A. Akovali, C. Baktash, F.E. Durham, C.J. Gross, P.F. Hua, G.D. Johns, M. Korolija, D.R. LaFosse, I.Y. Lee, A.O. Macchiavelli, W. Rathbun, D.G. Sarantites, D.W. Stracener, G.N. Sylvan, S.L. Tabor, A. Vander Molen, A.V. Afanasjev, and I. Ragnarsson, Phys. Rev. C 61, 034310 (2000)

"Transition strengths in odd-odd 86Nb"

M. Wiedeking, R.A. Kaye, G.Z. Solomon, S.L. Tabor, J. Döring, G.D. Johns, F. Cristancho, M. Devlin, F. Lerma, D.G. Sarantites, I.Y. Lee, and A.O. Macchiavelli, Phys. Rev. C 62, 024316 (2000)

Last modified: January 10, 2001
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