ED FEST!Saturday August 7th 2004

celebrating the distinguished career of our friend

EDWARD HARMON THORNDIKE

Who is Ed Thorndike?What does he do?

What does he look like?Ask:

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Edward L. Thorndike, psychologist 1874-1949

That is not right soI try an older scanning method...

1957Graduate Student at Harvard

Professor Edward Thorndike U of R

What did he do?

Authored and coauthored 17 papers while at Harvard!

(1957 through 1961)Nucleon nucleon triple scattering

Scintillations in liquid heliumTheory

"p‑p Triple Scattering at 143 MeV," C.F. Hwang, T.R. Ophel, E.H. Thorndike, Richard Wilson and N.F. Ramsey, Phys. Rev. Letts. 2, 514 (1959)

"p‑p Triple Scattering at 143 MeV," C. F. Hwang, T. R. Ophel, E. H. Thorndike, R. Wilson and N. F. Ramsey, Phys. Rev. Letters 2, 310 (1959)

"Scintillations from Liquid Helium," E. H. Thorndike and W. J. Shlaer, Rev. Sci. Instr.30, 838, (1959)"Depolarization and Time Reversal in p‑p Scattering at 142MeV," C.F. Hwang, T.R. Ophel, E.H. Thorndike and Richard

Wilson, Phys.Rev.119 , 352 (1960)."Measurement of the rotation parameter R in proton‑proton scattering at 140 MeV," E.H. Thorndike, J. LeFrancois and

Richard Wilson, Phys. Rev. 120, 1819 (1960)."Proton‑Proton Triple Scattering: Depolarization at 98 MeV, and Rotation at 140 MeV," Edward H. Thorndike, Ph.D.

thesis (1960)"Proton‑Proton Depolarization at 98 MeV," E. H. Thorndike and T. R. Ophe1, Phys. Rev. 119, 362 (1960)

"n‑p triple Scattering Parameters R and A," R. A. Hoffman, J. Lefrancois, E. H.Thorndike and R. Wilson, Phys. Rev. 125, 973 (1962).

"Extrapolation of Proton‑Proton Scattering Data to the One‑Pion Exchange Pole," E. H. Thorndike, Phys. Rev. 127,251 (1962).

"Measurement of the Triple‑Scattering Parameter A in Proton‑Proton and Proton‑Carbon Scattering at 139 MeV," Stanley Hee and E. H. Thorndike, Physical Review 132, 744 (1963)

"Quasi Free Proton‑neutron and Proton‑proton Scattering at 140MeV," J. Lefrancois, R.A. Hoffman, E.H. Thorndike and Richard Wilson, Phys. Rev. 131, 1660 (1963). &127; .87‑97

"Proton‑deuteron Elastic Triple Scattering at 140 MeV," R.A.Hoffman, J. Lefrancois, E.H. Thorndike and Richard Wilson, Phys. Rev. 131,1671 (1963)

"Measurement of the Triple Scattering Parameter A in Proton‑proton Scattering at 139 MeV," Stanley Hee and E.H Thorndike, Phys. Rev. 132:744‑749 (1963).

"Interpretation of Quasi‑Free Proton‑Deuteron Scattering," A. H. Cromer and E. H. Thorndike, Phys. Rev. l3l, 1680 (1963)."Measurement of the Triple Scattering Parameter A in Proton‑Proton and Proton‑Carbon Scattering at 139 MeV," S. Hee

and E. H. Thorndike, Phys. Rev. 132, 744 (1963)"Quasi‑Free Proton‑Neutron and Proton‑Proton Scattering at 140 MeV," J. Lefrancois, R. A. Hoffman, E. H. Thorndike and

R. Wilson, Phys. Rev. l31, 1660 (1963)."Limits on Parity and Time‑Reversal Noninvariance in p‑p Scattering," E. H. Thorndike, Phys. Rev. 138, 586 (1965).

The threefold embarrasment:To rotate the spin we:built a solenoid (GE)

built a rectifier supply (NJ)saturable reactor (PA) control

ALL FAILED!(Ed had to wait 6 months!)

Ed may remember ... Others always thought the

Harvard total cross sections were too high!

Now the best phase shifts give the solid line and the HCL results

were too low!

A.B. Wesleyan 1956,M.S. Stanford 1957.Ph.D. Harvard 1960,

postoc Harvard till 1961 Asst Prof U of R 1961,

Professor 1972. Panofsky Prize 1999

At Rochester Peter Koehler and Thorndike were the first to see nucleon nucleon bremstrahlungBut Gottschalk and Shlaer were

the first to publish(I had seen nucleon-nucleus

bremstrahlung in Rochester in 1955)

But Ed could not get away from me easily....

.We worked together on CLEO

at the Cornell e+/e- collider CESR for 20 years.

Others will tell that story and I will shut up.

ED!!

We are all the better for knowing you

andwe are proud to be your friends.