Geoffrey Chew
- Born: June 5, 1924 (Washington, DC)
Education
- 1944: BS, George Washington University
- 1948: PhD, University of Chicago (Physics)
Major Positions
- 1948–1949: University of California, Berkeley, Theoretical Physicist, Radiation Laboratory
- 1949–1950: University of California, Berkeley, Assistant Professor of Physics
- 1950–1951: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Assistant Professor of Physics
- 1951–1955: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Associate Professor of Physics
- 1955–1957: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Professor of Physics
- 1957–1993: University of California, Berkeley, Professor of Physics
- 1986–1993: University of California, Berkeley, Dean of Physical Sciences
- 1993–present: University of California, Berkeley, Emeritus Professor of Physics
Other Positions
- 1962–1963: Cambridge University, Fellow, Churchill College
- 1970–1971: Princeton University, Visiting Professor
- 1974–1978: University of California, Berkeley, Chair, Department of Physics
- 1983–1984: University of Paris, Visiting Professor
Selected Awards and Honors
Archival Resources
University of California, Berkeley, Bancroft Library, Berkeley California
Published Resources
Geoffrey F. Chew, "Particles as S-Matrix Poles: Hadron Democracy," in Pions to Quarks: Particle Physics in the 1950s, ed. Laurie M. Brown, Max Dresden, and Lillian Hoddeson (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press: 1989), 600-607
David Kaiser, "Nuclear Democracy: Political Engagement, Pedagogical Reform, and Particle Physics in Postwar America," Isis 93 (2002): 229-268.
