Stanley S. Hanna

Professor (Emeritus)
Experimental Nuclear Physics 

Room 128a
Varian Physics Bldg
382 Via Pueblo Mall
Stanford CA 94305-4060
             
                                         
tel 650-723-4612

Career History

• A.B., 1941, Denison University 
• Ph.D., 1947, Johns Hopkins University 
• Instructor, Johns Hopkins University, 1946-49 
• Assistant Professor of Physics, Johns Hopkins University, 1949-55 
• Physicist, Argonne National Laboratory, 1955-60 
• Senior Physicist, Argonne National Laboratory, 1960-63 
• Professor of Physics, Stanford Univeristy, 1963-present 
• Guggenheim Fellow, Oxford University, 1958-59 
• Alumni Citation, Denison University, 1966 
• Visiting Scientist, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel, 1969-70 
• Honorary Doctorate, Denison University, 1970 
• JSPS Visiting Professor, Osaka University, Japan, 1972 
• Visiting Professor, Canberra 
• University of Melbourne, Australia, 1975 
• Alexander von Humboldt Award, Max Planck Institute, Heidelberg, 1977 
• Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Indiana University, 1983 
• Visiting Scientist, Center for Nuclear Research, Strasbourg, 1984 
• Honorary Visiting Professor, University of Manchester, 1989 

Research Interests

Nuclear structure, giant resonances, polarization of nuclear radiations, lifetimes of nuclear states, resonance absorption and fluorescence, analogue states, nuclear moments, heavy ion reactions, weak interactions, electron scattering, intermediate energy physics, hyperfine interactions, positron polarization, and Mossbauer effect.