Uli becker biography

Biographical Sketch Professor Becker studied GeV photon interactions for his Ph. D., received in 1968 from the University of Hamburg, Germany.
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Ulrich Becker 1938–2020

Ulrich J Becker, professor emeritus at MIT, passed away on 10 March at the age of 81. He was a major contributor to the L3 experiment, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and the advancement of international collaborations in high-energy physics.

Becker was born in Dortmund, Germany, on 17 December 1938 – the day that nuclear fission was discovered in Berlin. As a young man, he was adept as an electrician, coal miner, and even in steel smelting, but he was more drawn to physics. He studied at the University of Marburg and obtained his PhD in Hamburg, focusing on the photo-production and leptonic decays of vector mesons.

In late 1965 Becker met Sam Ting, who admitted him to his group at DESY using the 6 GeV synchrotron to measure the size of the electron. It was a complementary match: Becker was a dogged researcher with detector and hardware acumen, and Ting was a master in scientific organization and politics. They presented their results at the XIIIth International Conference on High Energy Physics at Berkeley in 1966, showing that electrons have no measu

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Reebok's Uli Becker Jumpstarts the Shaping Up of America

JANUARY 2012 CEO OF THEMONTH: REEBOK’S ULIBECKER

By Hope Katz Gibbs,publisher/founder
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“I do and say what I believe in,” Uli Becker told me when we met in his office at Reebok’s corporate headquarters in Canton, Mass., in December.

That attitude undoubtedly has helped the current president of Reebok International chart new territory for the firm that he says was in the hospital, on life-support, when the new parent company, the Adidas Group, bought it in 2006.

The German-born Becker, who has worked for the Adidas Group since 1990, explains: “We found that Reebok was not in its best shape based on lowering of price points, and distribution channel dilution. The brand itself also wasn’t a high flier, because it was at the border of being a branded but unbranded business, in terms of how the public perceived it.”

If American consumers were confused, Reebok’s reputation was even muddier abroad. Despite pro-basketball player Sh

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In Memoriam: December 17, 1938 – March 10, 2020

Research Interests

Professor Becker’s research interests include:

Experimental high energy physics
How matter is created from energy
“Periodic System” behind the masses of leptons and quarks
The role of force carriers / the related Vector mesons: photon, rho, omega, phi, J…….Z0
Is there Anti-Matter left from the big bang? What particles constitute Dark Matter?

Starting at DESY, Hamburg, Germany, Professor Becker’s research first focused on the complex nature of the photon. He showed that all Vector–mesons behave like heavy photons, i.e., display diffraction and convert back to (virtual) photons. In search for more of such spin =1 particles, he was involved in the discovery of the J particle, which started the field of “charmed” matter and later evidence for the Gluon.

Presently, Prof. Becker primarily works on the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS), searching for Anti- and Dark matter from space using a TRD to isolate positrons. He also develops new particle det