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57:. At Caltech Adelberger graduated in 1960 with a B.S. and in 1967 with a Ph.D. under the supervision of Charles A. Barnes (1921–2015). As a postdoc Adelberger was from 1967 to 1968 a research fellow at Caltech and from 1968 to 1969 a research associate at 1088: 69:, he was from 1971 to 1972 an assistant professor, from 1972 to 1975 an associate professor, and from 1975 to 2007 a full professor, retiring in 2007 as professor emeritus. From 1978 to 1981 he was an associate editor for 304:
Hoyle, C. D.; Schmidt, U.; Heckel, B. R.; Adelberger, E. G.; Gundlach, J. H.; Kapner, D. J.; Swanson, H. E. (2001). "Submillimeter Test of the Gravitational Inverse-Square Law: A Search for "Large" Extra Dimensions".
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Kapner, D. J.; Cook, T. S.; Adelberger, E. G.; Gundlach, J. H.; Heckel, B. R.; Hoyle, C. D.; Swanson, H. E. (2007). "Tests of the Gravitational Inverse-Square Law below the Dark-Energy Length Scale".
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In August 1961 in Arlington, Virginia, he married Audra Elizabeth Browman. They have two children. Eric and Audra Adelberger have often backpacked and kayaked together and are long-time supporters of
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In the University of Washington's Eöt-wash Group, he has investigated the validity of Newton's law of gravitation down to small distances, smaller than the previously tested minimum distances in the
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for "his outstanding contributions in using nuclei to study fundamental symmetries, particularly studies of parity violation and isospin mixing." In 2021 he was awarded, jointly with
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Hoyle, C. D.; Kapner, D. J.; Heckel, B. R.; Adelberger, E. G.; Gundlach, J. H.; Schmidt, U.; Swanson, H. E. (2004). "Submillimeter tests of the gravitational inverse-square law".
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Murphy, T. W.; Adelberger, E. G.; Battat, J B R.; Hoyle, C. D.; Johnson, N. H.; McMillan, R. J.; Stubbs, C. W.; Swanson, H. E. (2012). "APOLLO: Millimeter lunar laser ranging".
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Terrano, W. A.; Adelberger, E. G.; Lee, J. G.; Heckel, B. R. (2015). "Short-Range, Spin-Dependent Interactions of Electrons: A Probe for Exotic Pseudo-Goldstone Bosons".
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His research deals with experimental nuclear physics (including fundamental symmetries in nuclei and nuclear structure) and experimental gravitational physics.
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Schlamminger, S.; Choi, K.-Y.; Wagner, T. A.; Gundlach, J. H.; Adelberger, E. G. (2008). "Test of the Equivalence Principle Using a Rotating Torsion Balance".
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Su, Y.; Heckel, B. R.; Adelberger, E. G.; Gundlach, J. H.; Harris, M.; Smith, G. L.; Swanson, H. E. (1994). "New tests of the universality of free fall".
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Shaw, E. A.; Ross, M. P.; Hagedorn, C. A.; Adelberger, E. G.; Gundlach, J. H. (2022). "Torsion-balance search for ultra low-mass bosonic dark matter".
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and hopes to be able to continue the experiment down to a few microns. With an improved torsion balance they also tested the
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Lee, J. G.; Adelberger, E. G.; Cook, T. S.; Fleischer, S. M.; Heckel, B. R. (2020). "New Test of the Gravitational 1/
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A Study of T = 1, T = 3/2, and T = 2 States in Some Light Nuclei Using (He³,n) Reactions. Dissertation (Ph.D.)
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Adelberger, E.G.; Heckel, B.R.; Nelson, A.E. (2003). "Tests of the Gravitational Inverse-Square Law".
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for “precision fundamental measurements that test our understanding of gravity, probe the nature of
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North America, United-States, Alaska, Peaks above Glacier Bay, Fairweather Range
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Adelberger, E. G.; et al. (2011). "Solar fusion cross sections. II. The
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CaltechTHESIS, A Caltech Library Service, California Institute of Technology
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Adelberger, Eric G.; et al. (1998). "Solar fusion cross sections".
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Niels Bohr Library & Archives, American Institute of Physics
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to very large distances (from planet Earth to the centre of the
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He graduated from Washington-Lee High School (now known as
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Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
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Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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In 1969, they made the first ascent of 134:Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics 1299:Fellows of the American Physical Society 710: 140:, and establish limits on couplings to 122:Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics 113:orbital satellite experiment in 2017. 1144:"Eric Adelberger, Professor Emeritus" 750: 748: 392:10.1146/annurev.nucl.53.041002.110503 157:American Academy of Arts and Sciences 7: 1215:. ITAMP Physics. September 30, 2019. 1197:"Real Physics Talk: Eric Adelberger" 53:(Caltech), where he was inspired by 603:Law at Separations down to 52 μm". 211:10.1146/annurev.ns.35.120185.002441 919:Minkel, J. R. (January 16, 2007). 822:"Physicist Charles A. Barnes Dies" 51:California Institute of Technology 25: 1314:American people of German descent 820:Svitil, Kathy (August 18, 2015). 719:American Men and Women of Science 1289:21st-century American physicists 1284:20th-century American physicists 1274:American experimental physicists 1269:University of Washington faculty 773:Adelberger, Eric George (1967). 1221:"Physics Club November 2, 2020" 756:"Eric G. Adelberger, Biography" 151:(APS), in 1994 a member of the 118:Humboldt Senior Scientist Award 989:10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.041101 717:biographical information from 635:10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.101101 576:10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.201801 529:10.1088/0264-9381/29/18/184005 155:, and in 1998 a fellow of the 47:Washington-Liberty High School 1: 1112:Washington National Park Fund 938:Sokol, Joshua (May 3, 2016). 889:10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.021101 760:American Institute of Physics 509:Classical and Quantum Gravity 1227:. Yale Physics. May 7, 2021. 1191:. ITAMPhysics. 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Eric Adelberger
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
Washington-Liberty High School
California Institute of Technology
Richard Feynman
Stanford University
Princeton University
University of Washington
Physical Review Letters
mm
extra dimensions
microns
equivalence principle
m
Milky Way
Eötvös parameter
MICROSCOPE
Humboldt Senior Scientist Award
Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics
Blayne Heckel
Jens H. Gundlach
Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
dark energy
dark matter
American Physical Society
National Academy of Sciences
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The Wilderness Society
The Nature Conservancy
Mount Aleutka

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