Jerry Peterson Heashot
Professor Emeritus of Physics

After receiving his undergraduate (1961) and graduate (1966) degrees in Physics at the University of Washington, Dr. Peterson became an instructor at Princeton University and a research faculty member at Yale University. His research interests have covered many arenas of nuclear physics, including nuclear astrophysics, nuclear reactions, nuclear fission, and applications of nuclear reactions to computer memory elements. These experimental studies have used beams from a wide variety of particle accelerators, most often involving foreign collaborators. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Copenhagen (Niels Bohr Institute), the University of Tokyo, and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He is a Foreign Fellow of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Jerry is also a member of the faculty in the UCB Program in International Affairs. His recent teaching has included classes in Physics, Environmental Studies, Journalism and International Affairs.

In the past, he was an administrator in the CU-Boulder Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research for six years, including posts as Assistant Vice Chancellor, Associate Vice Chancellor and Interim Vice Chancellor. In addition he was a chair of the Boulder Faculty Assembly, the representative body of the CU Boulder Faculty and a professor in the physics department specializing in the area of nuclear physics.