Harold Ticho to Head NAL Users' Group
Harold K. Ticho
The election of Harold K. Ticho as Chairman of the Executive Committee of the National Accelerator Laboratory Users' Organization took place at the February 2, 1969, meeting of the group's Executive Committee.
The election of Harold K. Ticho as Chairman of the Executive Committee of the National Accelerator Laboratory Users' Organization took place at the February 2, 1969, meeting of the group's Executive Committee.
Ticho is a professor of physics at the University of California, Los Angeles. He also has been chairman of the Physics department there since 1967,
In a letter dated March 5, 1969, to members of the NAL Users Organization, Ticho announced also the election of six more members to the group's executive committee.
The new members are D. B. Cline, of the University of Wisconsin; M. Derrick, of the Argonne National Laboratory; A. Pevsner, of the Johns Hopkins University; V. L. Telegdi, of the University of Chicago; D. H. White, of Cornell University, and S. G. Wojcicki, of Stanford University.
They will join the following on the users' executive committee: D. Keefe, of the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif.; A. D. Krisch, of the University of Michigan; J. R. Sanford, of the Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, N. Y.: A. Wattenberg, of the University of Illinois, W. Willis, of Yale University, and Ticho.
There are nearly 1000 members in the NAL Users' Organization, which is composed of physicists interested in the development of the facility and in the possibilities of conducting research at the National Accelerator Laboratory when it is completed.
Ticho joined the UCLA faculty in 1948 after receiving three degrees from the University of Chicago -- his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees.
He also has been a member of the scientific policy committee for the Stanford, Calif., Linear Accelerator. His academic field of special interest is elementary particle physics. He has been the author or co-author of many papers concerned with research in this field.