New Staff Appointments at Fermilab [Excerpt]
J. Walker
James K. Walker has become Head of the Fermilab Internal Target experimental area, replacing Drasko Jovanovic who becomes Assistant Head of the Research Division.
Jim has been at Fermilab since September, 1969, coming from a post as associate professor at Harvard. Initially he was associated with the design of the Neutrino Area. He has held a number of posts in experimental services and in the experimental areas at Fermilab including a year as Head of the Physics Department.
A native of Scotland, Dr. Walker earned his degrees at Glasgow University, including his doctorate in physics in 1960. From 1960 to 1962 he did research on the 1 GeV electron linear accelerator at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris. He came to the U.S. in 1962 and spent the next seven years at Harvard, except for six months at CERN in 1968.
Dr. Walker is one of the collaborators on a well-known total cross section theoretical model, the Cheng-Walker-Wu model which has been widely-read in considering the recent results of total cross section experiments from Fermilab and the CERN Intersecting Storage Rings. He is also part of a group of scientists from Fermilab and Northern Illinois University who have just completed an experiment at the Internal Target area which has shown a new kind of scaling law for particle production.