Seymour (Sy) Margulies In Memoriam October, 1933 - May, 1995

EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

Sy graduated from Cooper Union with an engineering degree.

He did his graduate work under Hans Frauenfelder at the

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he

received a Ph.D. in Physics in 1962. Before coming to

the University of Illinois at Chicago, Sy did postdoctoral

research in Heidelberg, Germany and at Columbia University's

Nevis Laboratory. While in Heidelberg he translated three

volumes of Pauli's lecture notes. He was Professor of Physics

at the University of Illinois at Chicago from 1965 to 1995.

Sy was an extraordinary teacher. His lectures were organized

and logical and beautiful to behold. The figures he drew on

the blackboard, looked like ones you would see printed in a

textbook. His students respected and liked him so much that

he was given many Silver Circle Teaching Awards. The faculty

recognized his talents by granting him a University Excellence

in Teaching Award.

RESEARCH PROJECTS

Sy's most recent research projects included a series of fixed

target experiments at Fermilab (E557,E672; deputy spokesman)

and the Tevatron collider experiment, D0. Sy was a consummate

experimental physicist. He had enormous skills in logical

thinking and communication. All the papers from his fixed

target work were edited by him. However, his greatest talent

was the development and construction of new experimental

equipment. On D0, Sy was one of the primary movers behind

the scintillating fiber tracking project.

The Margulies Award for undergraduate students has been

established at the University of Illinois at Chicago

in his honor.