Roy Frederick Schwitters

 Roy F. Schwitters was the S.W. Richardson Foundation Regental Professor of Physics and former Chair of the Department of Physics at the University of Texas at Austin, where he taught and conducted research in experimental high energy physics. From its founding in 1989 until canceled by Congress in 1993, he was director of the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) laboratory in Dallas, Texas. Before moving to Texas, he was a professor of physics at Harvard. Since 1996, Dr. Schwitters has been a member of JASON, a group of academic scientists and engineers who advise agencies of the U.S. government on technical matters related to national security issues. Currently, he is chair of the JASON steering committee. Dr. Schwitters has been involved with research in experimental high-energy physics and related developments in particle detectors and accelerators for over thirty years. During 1980-1988, Dr. Schwitters was co-spokesman and head of construction for the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) in Batavia, Illinois, a $100M-level construction project and related international scientific collaboration. Dr. Schwitters joined the Harvard faculty in 1979; previously, he was assistant and then associate professor at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in Stanford, California. He joined SLAC in 1971 as a research associate after receiving his Ph.D. degree in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned his Bachelor of Science degree in physics in 1966. Dr. Schwitters is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Physical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He received the 1980 Alan T. Waterman Award from the National Science Foundation and the 1996 Panofsky Prize from the American Physical Society. He was awarded a Research Prize by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany in 1998.