Tribble Earns Honorary Doctorate for Research Achievement
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Dr. Robert E. Tribble, distinguished professor of physics and director of Texas A&M University’s Cyclotron Institute, has been awarded an honorary doctorate from St. Petersburg State University in St. Petersburg, Russia, in recognition of his research achievement.
Tribble, an international leader in experimental nuclear physics and nuclear astrophysics, recently was presented with the degree during a June 22 ceremony on the St. Petersburg State University campus. He was recommended for the honor by St. Petersburg State nuclear physicist Konstatin Gridnev at the suggestion of a Cyclotron Institute colleague.
A member of Texas A&M physics faculty since 1975, Tribble has served since 2003 as director of the Cyclotron Institute, recognized as the core of the university’s nuclear physics program. He was head of the Texas A&M Department of Physics from 1979 to 1987 and has been honored with distinguished achievement awards presented by the university and The Association of Former Students in both research (2002) and teaching (1992).
Tribble is a former chair of the U.S. National Nuclear Science Advisory Committee, the nation’s most influential position in nuclear physics, as well as a fellow of the American Physical Society (1982) and a former Alfred P. Sloan Foundation fellow He is the author or co-author of more than 250 refereed publications.
Founded in 1819, St. Petersburg State University is considered one of the most prominent universities in Russia. It has received international recognition, thanks to the chemist Dmitry I. Mendeleev (creator of the Periodic Table of Elements), the physicist Alexander S. Popov (who invented the radio simultaneously with Marconi) and many other major scholars. Among the alumni of the school were many important figures of Russian culture and politics: the writers Nikolai Chernyshevsky and Ivan Turgenev, the poet Alexander Blok, prime minister and reformer Pyotr Stolypin and the head of the 1917 Provisional Government, Alexander Kerensky. Even the great revolutionary Vladimir Lenin attended the university and passed his finals exams in the Law Faculty in 1891.
Today, the university boasts more than 20,000 students, 2,000 professors, 210 departments and a library with 4 million volumes. Eight Nobel Prize winners are graduates of St. Petersburg State University (including the biologist Ivan Pavlov, the economist Vasily Leontiev and the poet Joseph Brodsky).
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Contact: Shana K. Hutchins, (979) 862-1237 or shutchins@tamu.edu or Dr. Robert E. Tribble, (979) 845-1411 or tribble@comp.tamu.edu
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