Fanny de Sivers (1920-2011)

Paul Mead Doty (1920–2011)

Offered an attractive choice of PhD berths, he opted for Columbia, and the theoretician Joseph E. Mayer as supervisor. The war intervened and Doty was deflected for a period into work on heavy water on the periphery of the Manhattan Project. It did not impede his daytime research, which progressed rapidly: he and a fellow student, Bruno Zimm, built the country's first light-scattering instrumen...

William H. Prusoff (1920–2011): Father of Antiviral Chemotherapy

Regarded as the father of antiviral chemotherapy, William H. Prusoff (Bill) passed away on April 3, 2011, in New Haven, Connecticut. Dr. Prusoff spent most of his career studying analogs of thymidine, a nucleoside building block of DNA, with an eye toward developing therapeutic agents. By exploring analogs to thymidine for use as antiviral drugs, his research created a new scientific paradigm f...

Sivers Mechanism for Gluons

Recent experiments performed by the HERMES collaboration have demonstrated that a small but nonzero Sivers mechanism for transverse single-spin asymmetries exists [1]. Although the presence of such effects has been conjectured long ago [2], only more recent studies [3] have clarified the role of final and initial state interactions as a source of such T-odd asymmetries at the parton level and h...

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Quark and Gluon Sivers Functions *

The physics of hadron single transverse spin asymmetries is discussed. Possible measurements of both the quark and gluon Sivers functions are proposed.