Ernest Courant
- Born: March 26, 1920 (Göttingen, Germany)
Education
- 1940: BS, Swarthmore College
- 1942: MS, University of Rochester (Physics)
- 1943: PhD, University of Rochester (Physics)
Major Positions
- 1943–1946: National Research Council Canada, Science Officer
- 1946–1948: Cornell University, Research Associate in Theoretical Physics
- 1948–1960: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Associate Physicist to Physicist
- 1960–1989: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Senior Physicist
- 1967–1985: State University of New York, Stony Brook, Professor
- 1990–present: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Distinguished Emeritus Scientist
Other Positions
- 1950–1951: Princeton University, Visiting Assistant Professor
- 1956–1956: Cambridge University, Fulbright Fellow
- 1961–1962: Yale University, Visiting Professor
- 1968–1969: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Visiting Physicist
- 1974–1974: European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Visiting Scientist
Selected Part-Time Positions
- 1947–1948: Consultant, Brookhaven National Laboratory
- 1958–1958: Consultant, General Atomics
- 1990–1993: Consultant, Superconducting Super Collider
Selected Awards and Honors
- 1976: National Academy of Sciences, Member
- 1987: American Physical Society, Robert R. Wilson Prize for Achievement in the Physics of Particle Accelerators
- 1987: United States Department of Energy, Enrico Fermi Award
Published Resources
Ernest D. Courant, "Early History of the Cosmotron and AGS at Brookhaven," in Pions to Quarks: Particle Physics in the 1950s, ed. Laurie M. Brown, Max Dresden, and Lillian Hoddeson (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press: 1989), 180-184
