P.D. Parker, Professor of Physics and Astronomy





1963         Ph.D., Caltech
1963-66   Reserach Physicist, BNL
1966-       Faculty, Yale University




Research Interests

The research interests of Peter Parker are focused in the area of nuclear astrophysics, for example, the solar neutrino problem and explosive nucleosynthesis in nova and supernova events. In the latter area, he continues to work on parallel, complementary programs involving (a) the use of stable beams both to identify important resonances and to make nuclear spectroscopy measurements their properties and (b) the use of radioactive ion beams to make direct measurements of those resonances. In a number of recent cases, these studies have been directly motivated by satellite observations of gamma-ray lines coming from specific galactic sites. In addition to experiments carried out on the Yale tandem, over the past decade a number of these measurements have been carried out at a variety of complementary facilities, including ANL-ATLAS, IUCF, ORNL-HRIBF, Princeton, Stuttgart, and Washington.





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