Arthur M. Poskanzer

Arthur M. Poskanzer (28 June 1931 in New York City – 30 June 2021 in Berkeley, California ) was an experimental physicist, known for his pioneering work on relativistic nuclear collisions.

Poskanzer received in 1953 his bachelor's degree in physics and chemistry from Harvard University and in 1954 his master's degree in chemistry from Columbia University. In 1957 he received his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in physical chemistry. At Harvard his undergraduate advisor was George Kistiakowsky, and at MIT his doctoral advisor was Charles Coryell. From 1978 to 1979 he was the scientific director of Bevalac. From 1980 to 1990 he was the leader of the Plastic Ball Experimental Group,

For the academic year 1970/71 he was a Guggenheim Fellow at the University of Paris-Sud in Orsay. He was several times a visiting scientist at CERN (in 1979/80, in 1986/87 and in 1995/96, with the latter two visiting years each supported by Alexander von Humboldt Senior US Scientist Awards). 1992 — elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 2008 — Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics