Ken Read
Professor
Department of Physics & Astronomy
Tennessee State University
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Kenneth F. Read earned a B.S. in physics with honors from Stanford University in 1981, an M.S. from Cornell University in 1984, and a Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1987. He was a postdoctoral research associate and then a research staff member for Princeton University. In 1991 he joined the faculty at the University of Tennessee as an Assistant Professor and also became a research staff member at Oak Ridge National Lab. He holds a joint appointment as a UT/ORNL faculty member. His awards include a National Merit Scholarship, the Stanford David Levine Award in physics, an NSF graduate fellowship, the Cornell University Andrew D. White fellowship, Phi Beta Kappa, full membership in Sigma Xi, and listing in the 1996-7 edition of Who's Who in Science and Engineering. He is a co-author of over 100 experimental research papers. He is the coordinating physicist responsible for the muon identifier subsystem of the PHENIX detector under construction at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Research Interest
Experimental Nuclear Physics
Publications
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L3 Collaboration. Results from the L3 experiments at LEP. Physics Reports. 1993 Dec 1;236(1-2):1-46.
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Adeva B, Adriani O, Aguilar-Benitez M, Akbari H, Alcaraz J, Aloisio A, Alverson G, Alviggi MG, An Q, Anderhub H, Anderson AL. A measurement of the Z0 leptonic partial widths and the vector and axial vector coupling constants. Physics Letters B. 1990 Mar 29;238(1):122-30.
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Bebek C, Berkelman K, Blucher E, Cassel DG, Copie T, DeSalvo R, DeWire JW, Ehrlich R, Galik RS, Gilchriese MG, Gittelman B. Exclusive decays and masses of the B mesons. Physical Review D. 1987 Sep 1;36(5):1289.
