Thomas Devlin was born in 1935 in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, the son of
Thomas J. Devlin, Sr., and Anne Lyttle Devlin. His early education was
at Immaculate Conception School in Jenkintown and LaSalle High School
in Philadelphia. He received a B.A. in physics and mathematics from
LaSalle College in 1957.
At The University of California,
Berkeley, he earned his M.A. (1959) and Ph.D. (1961) in physics under the
direction of Burton J. Moyer. From 1962 to 1967, he served on the
faculty at Princeton University.
Since 1967, he has served on the faculty of the
Department of Physics
and Astronomy at
Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey
.
In 1970-71, he was a guest scientist at
CERN,
the European Center for Nuclear Research.
In 1980-81 and again during 1988-90, he was a visiting scientist at
Fermilab.
In 1991, he was awarded a
Guggenheim Fellowship.
Professor Devlin's research interests are experimental high energy physics - the study of the fundamental particles in nature. He has performed experiments at the Berkeley Bevatron and 184-inch cyclotron, at the Princeton-Pennsylvania Accelerator, the Alternating-Gradient Synchrotron at Brookhaven National Laboratory and at CERN. From 1974 to 1985 at Fermilab, he and his collaborators performed a series of experiments on the polarization and magnetic moments of hyperons. For this work, he and Professor Lee Pondrom of the University of Wisconsin shared the 1994 W.K.H. Panofsky Prize of The American Physical Society. Professor Devlin's current research is centered on proton-antiproton annihilations at 1.8-Trillion Electron-Volts with CDF, the Collider Detector at Fermilab.
Professor Devlin changed from Astrophysics in 2005. He worked on the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT), the world's largest fully steerable single aperture antenna. He is working data analysis for polarization on about 50 galaxies.
Professor Devlin has taught a variety of courses at the undergraduate and graduate level for students studying technical subjects such as physics, engineering, pre-med and biology. He has also taught Astronomy and Cosmology to non-science students. He taught Physics 418, Nuclear and Particle Physics. He last course lab was in Radio Astronomy (2004-2007) using the radio telescope on the roof of Serin Laboratory. Sixteen graduate students have earned their doctorates under his supervision. He retired in 2007, he moved to Rutgers to the University of Pennsylvania.
He is married to
Dr. Nancy Devlin,
a psychologist, educator, author and columnist.
They live in North Brunswick, NJ, and have three sons.
Paul Devlin
is a producer, director and Emmy-winning
editor for film and video.
He produced and directed
SlamNation which opened
at the Film Forum in New York on July 17, 1998.
(See NYTimes Review).
His most recent production,
Power Trip,
has won
awards
at a number of international film festivals.
It has played in Los Angeles and New York and a number of theaters
in Europe and the Middle East.
It is being scheduled for release in thirty U.S. cities in early 2004.
(See NYTimes Review).
Thomas Edward Devlin is
an engineer and product designer whose company
Bruxcare,
is bringing its products to market in 2002.
Mark Devlin is
an astrophysicist at the University of Pennsylvania,
who is working on observations of the large-scale structure of the
universe.
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