# William Chinowsky

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{{Short description|American astrophysicist}}
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'''William Chinowsky''' is an American [astrophysicist](/source/Astrophysics). He is a professor emeritus at the [University of California, Berkeley](/source/University_of_California%2C_Berkeley).<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=William Chinowsky (E) {{!}} UC Berkeley Physics |url=https://physics.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/william-chinowsky |access-date=2022-06-01 |website=physics.berkeley.edu}}</ref>

== Biography ==
Chinowsky received his A.B. and Ph.D. from [Columbia University](/source/Columbia_University). He worked as a staff physicist at [Brookhaven National Laboratory](/source/Brookhaven_National_Laboratory) before joining the Berkeley faculty in 1961. He served as a program director of the [National Science Foundation](/source/National_Science_Foundation) from 1992 to 1996 and was affiliated with the [Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory](/source/Lawrence_Berkeley_National_Laboratory).<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NR5nCxqF2YUC&dq=william+chinowsky+american+physical&pg=RA2-PA38 |title=LBL Research Review |date=1985 |publisher=Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Amanda Solliday |title=The November Revolution |url=https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/november-2014/the-november-revolution |access-date=2022-06-01 |website=symmetry magazine |language=en}}</ref> He works in observational high-energy neutrino astrophysics.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Smoot Group Cosmology |url=https://aether.lbl.gov/personnel/willi.html |access-date=2022-06-01 |website=aether.lbl.gov}}</ref> Among his students were [Carl Haber](/source/Carl_Haber), a [MacArthur Fellow](/source/MacArthur_Fellows_Program) known for his work in audio preservation, and [Susan Cooper](/source/Susan_Cooper_(physicist)), professor at the [University of Oxford](/source/University_of_Oxford).<ref>{{Cite web |title=In the Groove {{!}} Columbia College Today |url=https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/archive/summer14/features0 |access-date=2022-06-01 |website=www.college.columbia.edu}}</ref>

Chinowsky received two [Guggenheim Fellowship](/source/Guggenheim_Fellowship)s, one in 1966 for experiments in elementary particle interactions,<ref>{{Cite book |last=California (System) |first=University of |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qfE2AQAAMAAJ&dq=william+chinowsky+guggenheim&pg=PA207 |title=University Bulletin: A Weekly Bulletin for the Staff of the University of California |date=1965 |publisher=Office of Official Publications, University of California |language=en}}</ref> and a second in 1978.<ref>{{Cite web |title=William Chinowsky |url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/william-chinowsky/ |access-date=2022-06-01 |website=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |language=en-US}}</ref> In 1987, he was elected a fellow of the [American Physical Society](/source/American_Physical_Society) for "contributions to the discovery of numerous elementary particles and the determination of their properties."<ref name=":1" />

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