Van der Velde, Jack C.

Professor Jack van der Velde is Professor Emeritus in the Physics Department of the University of Michigan, as of 2003. He received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Michigan in 1958. That year, he began teaching physics at the University of Michigan as an instructor, and continued teaching there for his entire career. His research focused on high energy physics, cosmic rays, proton decay, and neutrinos.

Professor van der Velde was co-spokesman for the IMB Project (University of California-Irvine, University of Michigan, Brookhaven National Laboratory), with Frederick Reines. The IMB Project searched for proton decay using an 8,000 metric ton cube of water and a Cherenkov detector, located in the Morton Salt Company Mines in Fairport Harbor, Ohio.

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