Richard G. Milner
professor
Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Poland
Biography
Professor Richard Milner joined the MIT faculty in 1988, where he served as Director of the Bates Linear Accelerator Center, and Director of MIT's Laboratory for Nuclear Science. He received his B.Sc. in 1978 and his M.Sc. in 1979 in Physics from the University College, Cork, Ireland, and his Ph.D., also in Physics, in 1984 from the California Institute of Technology, where he was was a Research Fellow from 1985 to 1988.
Research Interest
Professor Milner is a member of Laboratory for Nuclear Science's Hadronic Physics Group. His research is focused on studying the spin structure of strongly interacting systems. A major focus of his research effort over the last decade has been the HERMES experiment to study the spin structure of the nucleon. This work was carried out in collaboration with Prof. Robert P. Redwine. HERMES has provided important new data on the flavor decomposition of the quark spin and on the contribution of the glue, yielding a number of new, unexpected results
