Frank Sciulli, Ph.D.
- Member, FRA Board of Directors for Fermilab and chair of Physics Committee
- Pupin Professor of Physics Emeritus, Columbia University
Frank Sciulli has been a member of the ZEUS collaboration (DESY Lab in Hamburg) since its beginnings in 1985; he played a key role in leading the nine U.S. institutions who built major components for the detector. Continuing as an active member of the collaboration during data-taking, he contributed to analyses of several major science issues including new discoveries involving the proton’s quark-gluon properties and forces as well as searches for non-Standard model phenomena. He spent two years in Hamburg in 1991-2, when data-taking began, as a recipient of the Humboldt Foundation Research Award.
His scientific career began in the 1960’s with two experiments demonstrating the validity of selection rules proposed to govern strange particles decays. These rules were to be recognized as essential properties of the then hypothetical quarks. Beginning in 1969, he initiated one of the earliest Fermilab experiments to measure the high energy interactions of neutrinos, making an early demonstration of the existence of Neutral Currents in the Weak Interactions. This activity led to a two-decade collaboration (CCFR), who corroborated predicted properties of electroweak interactions as well as empirically demonstrating the properties of the quarks and gluons to be as predicted in the Standard Model. For this work, Sciulli was awarded the American Physical Society’s Panofsky prize in 1995.
He served as chair of the Columbia University Physics Department between 1988 and 1991, a period of expansion into new areas of department research. He has participated in many professional committees, including HEPAP (1977-81, 1996-97), the Executive Committee of the APS Division of Particles and Fields (1994-97; chair 1996), the International Committee for Future Accelerators (1996-97); Stanford’s SLAC Science Policy Committee (1996-2000; chair 1999-2000); DESY’s Extended Science Council (1997-2003); and was a member of three HEPAP subpanels (chair of two). He presently serves as co-chair of the Sanford Lab (Homestake) Program Advisory Committee.
A multiple graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (AB 1960; MA 1961; PhD 1965), he became Assistant Professor at the California Institute of Technology in 1969, and Professor in 1977. He joined Columbia University as Professor of Physics in 1982, and was named Pupin Professor in 2001. He became Pupin Professor Emeritus in 2004, retiring from regular academic duties. Sciulli is a member of the New York Academy of Science and of Sigma Xi, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. |
