Winstein, Bruce

Bruce Winstein was born in Los Angeles on September 25, 1943. He studied at UCLA as an undergraduate, before receiving his doctorate in physics from California Institute of Technology in 1970. After two years of post-doctoral studies at the Max Planck Institute in Munich, Winstein was appointed a senior research associate at the University of Chicago. He was named assistant professor in 1976 and later became the Samuel K. Allison Distinguished Service Professor in Physics.

Winstein was heavily involved with work at Fermilab in Illinois, leading the long-running KTeV experiment, which in 1999 provided the first evidence of direct CP violation, proving a long running hypothesis held in particle physics. Its results implied that the direction of time is an innate property of the universe. In recognition of his work on KTeV, Winstein was awarded the Panofsky Prize in Experimental Physics in 2007.

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