Murray Peshkin

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• 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. Against a Proposed Alternative Explanation of the Aharonov-Bohm Effect
   Murray Peshkin
   Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 43 354031 (2010)

2. Spin-Zero Particles Must Be Bosons: A New Proof within Nonrelativistic Quantum Mechanics
   Murray Peshkin
   Foundations of Physics 36, 19-29 (2006)

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

4. 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)

5. 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
   

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

7. 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)

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

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

10. 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)
    

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

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

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

Selected previous papers