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Langberg Endowed Chair in Physics:
Dr. Cvetic

Mirjam Cvetic

Dr. Mirjam Cvetic, professor of physics and astronomy has been named the inaugural holder of the Fay R. and Eugene L. Langberg Endowed Professorship in Physics, SAS Dean Samuel H. Preston has announced.

Dr. Cvetic came to Penn as a research associate in 1987 and was named the Class of 1965 Endowed Term Professor in 1999. She received her Ph.D. in 1984 from the University of Maryland, College Park, and completed both her M.A. and B.S. at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. She has been a visitor at Rutgers University; Henri Poincaré Institute; Cambridge University; the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste, Italy; CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, in Geneva, Switzerland; the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy; and the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.

Her research interests span problems of elementary particle physics ranging from the study of basic interactions to the experimental tests of fundamental theories. With a background in basic theory as well as in phenomenology, her research bridges the gap between basic theory and the experimental consequences of these theories. She has published more than 200 journal articles and is the editor of Physics Letters B.

Since coming to Penn, she has been named a fellow of the American Physical Society and has received the National Science Foundation's Career Advancement Award, Penn's Research Foundation Award, and the Junior Faculty SSC Fellowship Award.

The Langberg Professorship was established in 2002 through the bequest of Eugene L. Langberg, CCC '42, G'45. The late Mr. Langberg was an electrical physicist who held positions at the U.S. Naval Research Lab in Washington, D.C., and at the Franklin Institute. He also served as a commissioner of Upper Gwynedd Township, Pennsylvania.

 


  Almanac, Vol. 49, No. 34, May 27, 2003

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