Sunil Somalwar

Professor, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, 136 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854
  • Phone: 732-445-0745
  • Fax: 732-445-4343
  • Email: somalwar@physics.rutgers.edu

    Research

    Experimental Elementary Particle Physics (or High Energy Physics)

    "Professor Sunil Somalwar smashes very high energy particles at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) near Chicago and the CERN laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland.  The protons and antiprotons he studies collide head on while travelling at about 99.99995% of the speed of light. These collisions create conditions that existed in our universe soon after the Big Bang and help us answer fundamental questions such as how the universe came about, what it is made of, why things attract or repel each other and where all the antimatter has gone. Professor Somalwar is also very concerned about how we humans are smashing the natural world, which is partly why he teaches classes on energy and global warming. He also runs a nonprofit to save the world's remaining few wild tigers (yes, really!) and is a volunteer activist with New Jersey's Sierra Club."

    Relevant Links

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  • Rutgers University
  • Department of Physics and Astronomy
  • Outreach Activities: Department of Physics and Astronomy

    My Links for Public Consumption

    (Mentioned organizations are not affiliated to Rutgers)

  • I co-chair Saving Wild Tigers, an international nonprofit dedicated to saving the remaining tigers in the wild.
  • I am a volunteer activist with the Sierra Club of NJ, a grassroots environmental organization with approximately 23000 members in NJ
  • I also run a campaign to promote use of energy efficienct devices such as compact fluorescent light bulbs to slow the rapid advance of global warming. Please contact me if you want to do something along these lines.

    Maintained by Sunil Somalwar, somalwar(AT)physics(DOT)rutgers(DOT)edu