Murray Peshkin

• phone: 630/252-4061
• FAX: 630/252-3903
• e-mail: peshkin@anl.gov

Biographical sketch

• 1951 Ph.D., Cornell University
• 1951-59 Northwestern University
• 1959-91 Argonne National Laboratory
• 1963-83 Associate or Acting Director, Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory
• 1991-present Post-retirement research participant, Argonne National Laboratory

Visiting appointments

• 1956 Research Assoicate, Stanford University
• 1959-60 Weizmann Fellow, Weizmann Institute of Science
• 1960 Visiting Scientist, Kyoto University
• 1968-69 Senior Weizmann Fellow, Weizmann Institute of Science
• 1984 Visiting Scientist, Weizmann Institute of Science

Professional Societies

• Fellow, American Physical Society
• Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Representative recent works

1. Addressing the public about science and religion
   Murray Peshkin
   Physics Today 59, 46 (2006)

2. Spin and statistics in nonrelativistic quantum mechanics: The spin-zero case
   Murray Peshkin
   Phys. Rev. A 67, 042102-1:4 (2003)
   Phys. Rev. A 68, 046102-1:2 (2003)

3. A Bragg Scattering Method to Search for the Neutron Electric Dipole Moment
   T. Dombeck, H. Kaiser, D. Koetke, M. Peshkin, and R. Ringo
   Physics Dvision Report No. PHY-9814-TH-2001
   

4. Comment on "Quantum Phase Shift Caused by Spatial Confinement", by B.E. Allman et al.
   M. Peshkin
   Foundations of Physics Letts. 13, 97 (2000)

5. A no-go theorem for matter-wave interferometry with application to the neutron's electric-dipole moment
   M. Peshkin
   Nucl. Instr. and Meth. Phy. Res. A 441, 583 (2000)

6. Force-Free Interactions and Nondispersive Phase Shifts in Interferometry
   M. Peshkin
   Foundations of Physics, 29, 481 (1998)

7. The coherent electron
   Y. Imry and M. Peshkin
   in "Electron: a centenary volume", edited by Michael Springford
   (Cambridge University Press, 1997)

8. Off-Diagonal Long-Range Order, Restricted Gauge Transformations, and Aharonov-Bohm Effect in Conductors
   M. Peshkin
   Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 2207 (1996)
   Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 2346 (1996)
   

9. Topology, Locality, and Aharonov-Bohm Effect with Neutrons
   M. Peshkin and H. J. Lipkin
   Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 2847 (1995)

10. Comment on "Scalar Aharonov-Bohm experiment with neutrons"
    Murray Peshkin
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 2017 (1992)

11. "The Aharonov-Bohm Effect"
    M. Peshkin and A. Tonomura
    Lecture Notes in Physics Vol.340
    (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1989)

Selected previous papers