Lee Grodzins

Lee Grodzins (born July 10, 1926) is an American professor emeritus of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

[1] After work as a researcher at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Grodzins joined the faculty of MIT, where he taught physics for nearly four decades.

[5] He began his career with General Electric as an assistant in the nuclear physics group at their research laboratory in Schenectady, New York.

[6][7] From 1955 to 1958, Grodzins was a researcher with the nuclear physics group at Brookhaven National Laboratory, probing the properties of the nuclei of atoms.

[2][8] The same year, together with Maurice Goldhaber and Andrew Sunyar [de], Grodzins performed an experiment that determined that neutrinos have negative helicity.

[6][9] There he also developed handheld devices that use X-ray fluorescence to determine the composition of metal alloys and to detect other materials.