Murray Peshkin

1925-2017

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
• 1991-2017 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. Oscillating decay rate in electron capture and the neutrino mass difference
   Murray Peshkin
   Phys. Rev. C 91, 042501(R) (2015) [4 pages]

2. Non-exponential and oscillatory decays in quantum mechanics
   Murray Peshkin, Alexander Volya and Vladimir Zelevinsky
   Europhysics Letters 107, 40001 (2014)

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

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

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

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

7. 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
   

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

9. 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)

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

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

12. Off-Diagonal Long-Range Order, Restricted Gauge Transformations, and Aharonov-Bohm Effect in Conductors
    M. Peshkin
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 2207-2210 (1996)
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 2346 (1996)
    

13. Topology, Locality, and Aharonov-Bohm Effect with Neutrons
    M. Peshkin and H. J. Lipkin
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 2847-2850 (1995)

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

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

Selected previous papers