People: Former SSC Official Assumes Key Post At National Laboratory

Thomas Kirk- Former SSC Official Assumes Key Post At National Laboratory Jerome Bert Wiesner - Obituary Date: November 14, 1994, pp.25 Thomas Kirk, the former deputy director of the now-defunct superconducting supercollider (SSC) laboratory in Waxahachie, Texas, has assumed the position of associate director for high energy and nuclear physics at the United States Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, N.

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Thomas Kirk, the former deputy director of the now-defunct superconducting supercollider (SSC) laboratory in Waxahachie, Texas, has assumed the position of associate director for high energy and nuclear physics at the United States Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, N.Y. He began his job October 3. Kirk took over the position from Melvin Schwartz, who left the laboratory to become the I.I. Rabi Professor at New York City's Columbia University.

Kirk, a high-energy physicist by training, will be responsible for the physics department, the alternate gradient synchrotron (AGS) department, the instrumentation division, and the Center for Accelerator Physics at Brookhaven.

Kirk says of his immediate goals for his new position, "My first job is to make sure that the programs are sustained as planned," before embarking on new ventures.

Of all the programs under way at the laboratory, Kirk considers the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) program as ...

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