Pollock, 56, conceived and designed the cooler facility at the Indiana University Cyclotron Facility and was its director from 1972 to 1979. Blosser, 64, led the design and construction of an innovative room-temperature cyclotron at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State, of which he was codirector from 1985 to 1989. Their research developments "have also led to important advances in accelerator techniques for the neighboring disciplines of atomic and medical physics," according to the award citation.
Pollock received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1962. At Princeton, he was an instructor in 1961-63, an assistant professor in 1964-69, and a research physicist in 1969-70. He came to Indiana in 1970 and was an associate professor until 1973, and a full professor until 1984, when he was named Distinguished Professor.
Blosser received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1954. He was a physicist at Oak Ridge National ...
