Robert Sachs
- Born: May 4, 1916 (Hagerstown, Maryland)
- Died: April 14, 1999 (Chicago, Illinois)
Education
- 1939: PhD, Johns Hopkins University (Physics)
Major Positions
- 1939–1941: George Washington University, Research Fellow in Theoretical Physics
- 1941–1941: University of California, Berkeley, Research Fellow in Theoretical Physics
- 1941–1943: Purdue University, Instructor in Physics
- 1943–1946: United States Army, Chief, Air Blast Section, Ballistics Research Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Ground
- 1946–1947: Argonne National Laboratory, Director, Theoretical Physics Division
- 1947–1964: University of Wisconsin, Madison, Associate Professor to Professor of Physics
- 1964–1968: Argonne National Laboratory, Associate Laboratory Director, High Energy Physics
- 1968–1986: University of Chicago, Professor of Physics
- 1973–1979: Argonne National Laboratory, Director
- 1986–1999: University of Chicago, Emeritus Professor of Physics
Other Positions
- 1955–1956: Princeton University, Higgins Visiting Professor
- 1959–1959: European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Visiting Scientist
- 1959–1960: École Normale Supérieure, Guggenheim Fellow
- 1968–1973: University of Chicago, Director, Enrico Fermi Institute
- 1973–1979: European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Visiting Scientist
- 1974–1974: Tohoku University, Visiting Professor
- 1983–1986: University of Chicago, Director, Enrico Fermi Institute
Selected Part-Time Positions
- 1946–1952: Consultant, Argonne National Laboratory
- 1946–1959: Consultant, Ballistics Research Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Ground, United States Army
- 1955–1959: Consultant, Radiation Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
- 1958–1961: Member, Advisory Panel on Physics, National Science Foundation
- 1960–1963: Consultant, Argonne National Laboratory
- 1966–1970: Member, Science Policy Committee, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC)
- 1967–1969: Member, High Energy Physics Advisory Panel, United States Atomic Energy Commission
- 1969–1972: Member, Physics Survey Committee, National Research Council
- 1991–1993: Member, Task Force on Energy Research Priorities, United States Department of Energy
Archival Resources
University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center, Chicago, Illinois
Published Resources
Kameshwar C. Wali, "Robert Green Sachs: 1916-1999", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences
Robert G. Sachs and Kameshwar C. Wali, "Comments on Electromagnetic Form Factors of the Nucleon," in Pions to Quarks: Particle Physics in the 1950s, ed. Laurie M. Brown, Max Dresden, and Lillian Hoddeson (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press: 1989), 144-146
