Gordon L. Kane, PhD

Professor of Physics (Retired) | Researcher

A Timeline of Professional Milestones

1958

Earns a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Minnesota, later attaining a Master of Science from the University of Illinois in 1961.

1963

Obtains a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Illinois; Is a postdoctoral scholar at Johns Hopkins University through 1965.

1965

Teaches physics at the University of Michigan through 2019.

1971

Is a J.S. Guggenheim Foundation Fellow.

1983

Serves on the Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Program Advisory Committee until 1987.

1987

Serves on Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Program Committee through 1991.

1988

Is a Delphasus Lecturer at UC Santa Cruz; Serves on the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center’s Science Policy Committee until 1990.

1988

Serves on the User’s Organization of Superconducting Supercollider Executive Committee until 1991.

1990

Serves on the American Physical Society’s Nominating Committee until 1993.

1992

Contributes to the U.S.-Japan Joint Working Group on Superconducting Supercollider.

1997

Receives the Research Excellence Award from the University of Michigan.

1998

Is the American Physical Society Centennial Speaker through 1999; Is a Dozor Fellow at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel.

2006

Is appointed Victor Weisskopf Distinguished University Professor of Physics at the University of Michigan.

2007

Is a member at Princeton University’s Institute of Advanced Study.

2009

Is director of the Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics through 2017.

2012

Receives the Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize from the American Physical Society.

2016

Receives the J.J. Sakuri Award of the American Physical Society.

2021

Is interviewed for the American Institute of Physics Oral History Depository.

2021

Contributes as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Physical Society and Institute of Physics.

2021

Holds membership with the Michigan Society of Fellows, Johns Hopkins University Society of Scholars and Particles and Fields Society.

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