C. Thornton Murphy, a senior physicist at Fermi National Accelerator in
Batavia, Illinois died 12 October 2001 from a fall at his home in
Batavia.

Murphy was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts February 20, 1938. His
father was a professor of classics so that Thornton traveled widely in
Europe with his family as a boy, becoming fluent in Italian and French.
He graduated from Western Reserve Academy in 1954. He went on to
Princeton University as an undergraduate and then to the University of
Wisconsin-Madison where he earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in physics in 1963.
Upon graduation Murphy continued to work on bubble chamber physics at
LBL as a University of Wisconsin research associate. After Wisconsin he
became an assistant professor of physics at the University of Michigan
and then moved to Carnegie-Mellon University before coming to Fermilab
in 1972. At Carnegie he developed several teaching innovations including
courses in relativity and new approaches to laboratory classes.

When Murphy arrived at Fermilab he started a new career developing beams
and experimental facilities at Fermilab. Murphy was one of the true
pioneers that helped build Fermilab. He was an important contributor to
the design and construction of the Proton Laboratory, one of the three
major experimental areas at Fermilab at the time. He eventually became
head of that facility. Over the years he also served as head of the
Beams Group, the Research Facilities Department, and the Cryogenic
Department in the Research Division. He was a key person in the Tevatron
installation. Murphy was an expert in the surveying requirements of
large accelerator facilities and served as a consultant to the
Superconducting Super Collider project in this area. At the time of his
death he was project manager for the Fermilab Switchyard 120 Project
which was bringing Main Injector beam out for fixed target experiments.

During his 29 years at the Laboratory Murphy pursued his research
interests. He continued his bubble chamber research begun at Michigan
and Carnegie-Mellon by inaugurating a bubble chamber program when he
arrived at Fermilab. He served as spokesman for the Fermilab bubble
chamber experiment E-194, a study of proton interactions in Deuterium.
On completion of that program, he developed an interest in electronic
experiments, culminating in an extensive series of experiments that
studied quark-antiquark and quark-gluon interactions that produced
direct photons, muon pairs, chi states and B mesons. The possibilities
for using very high energy proton beams to produce large samples of B
mesons led Murphy to combine his research and beams interests in an
innovative proposal to extract a 20 TeV beam from the SSC using bent
crystal channeling. Murphy then led a very successful test of the
process at the Tevatron.

Throughout his professional life Murphy continued to be interested in
travel and contacts with scientists throughout the world. He developed
an extensive network in Europe and Russia to support the SSC/Tevatron
bent crystal extraction test. Murphy worked on leave at CERN in 1985-86,
the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1991 and Frascati in 1997-98.
Beyond physics, Murphy was fond of music. Only days before the accident
he had led Fermilab in singing \"Happy Birthday\" in Italian and English
on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Enrico Fermi\'s birth.

R. Carrigan, B. Cox, and C. Moore

Cox redraft-Dec. 11, 01

C. Thornton Murphy, a senior physicist at Fermi National Accelerator

in Batavia, Illinois died 12 October 2001 from a fall at his home in

Batavia.

Murphy was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in \<?\>. His father was a

professor of classics so that Thornton traveled widely in Europe with

his family as a boy, becoming fluent in Italian and French. He graduated

from Western Reserve Academy in 1954. He went on to Princeton University

as an undergraduate and then to the University of Wisconsin-Madison

where he earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in physics in 1963. After graduation

he worked on bubble chamber physics at LBL as a University of Wisconsin

research associate. After Wisconsin he was a professor of physics at the

University of Michigan and Carnegie-Mellon University before coming to

Fermilab in 1972. At Carnegie he developed several teaching

innovations including courses in relativity and new approaches to

laboratory classes.

When Murphy arrived at Fermilab he started a new career developing beams

and experimental facilities for the Fermilab. He was one of the true

pioneers that helped build Fermilab. He was a major contributor to

the design and construction of the Proton Laboratory, one of the three

major experimental areas at Fermilab at the time, eventually becoming

head of that facility. He also served as head of the Beams Group, the

Research Facilities Department, and the Cryogenic Department in the

Research Division during his career at Fermilab. He was a key person in

the Tevatron installation. Murphy was an expert in the surveying

requirements of large accelerator facilities, eventually

serving as a consultant to the Superconducting Super Collider project in

this area.

Although Murphy was a major contributor to Fermilab in many ways, he

continued during his 29 years at the Laboratory to pursue his

research interests. He continued his bubble chamber research begun at

Michigan and Carnegie-Mellon by inaugurated a bubble chamber

program when he arrived at Fermilab. He served as spokesman for the

Fermilab bubble chamber experiment E-194, a study of proton interactions

in Deuterium. On completion of that program, he developed an interest in

electronic experiments, culminating in an extensive series of

experimetns that studied quark-antiquark and quark-gluon interactions
that

produced direct photons, muon pairs, chi states and B mesons. The
possibilities

for using very high energy proton beams to produce large samples of B

mesons led Murphy to combine his research and beams interests in an

innovative proposal to extract a 20 TeV beam from the SSC using bent

crystal channeling. Murphy then led a very successful test of the

process at the Tevatron.

Throughout his professional life Murphy continued to be interested in

travel and contacts with scientists throughout the world. He developed

an extensive network in Europe and Russia to support the SSC/Tevatron

extraction test. Murphy worked on leave at CERN in 1985-85, the

University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1991 and Frascati in \<?\>. Beyond

physics, Murphy was fond of music. Only days before the accident he had

led Fermilab in singing \"Happy Birthday\" in Italian and English on the

occasion of the 100th anniversary of Enrico Fermi\'s birth.

Possible Murphy Obituary:

Brad and Craig: Here is a draft of a possible Murphy obituary in the
style of Physics Today. I took Gene Fisk's comments to heart and looked
through several months of Physics Today obituaries. Yes-half of them
were quite well known (and old). It pays to be a foreigner to get into
that obituary column. Obituaries always look pretty good. I judge ½ to
1/3 to be less important than Thornton. My inclination would be to try
to get something in.

Please feel free to chop this draft to pieces or say this is a bad idea.
Brad, I hope you will beef up the physics part. If we decide this should
go ahead I propose that we pass this by Gene Fisk since he was critical
and Barbara Murphy. In my view the easiest way to transmit this to
Physics Today is via the University of Virginia. There can be ten
reasons not to do something at Fermilab.

For reference I have attached the material from the Batavia Chronicle
obituary, the Fermilab web page release, and the CV from Craig. The CV
should probably be held closely since it ispossibvly a Fermilab personal
item.

Dick

===============================================

Physics Today style:

C. Thornton Murphy, a long-time physicist at Fermi National Accelerator
in Batavia, Illinois died 12 October 2001 from a fall at his home in
Batavia.

Murphy was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in \<?\>. His father was a
professor of classics so that Thornton traveled widely in Europe with
his family as a boy, becoming fluent in Italian and French. He graduated
from Western Reserve Academy in 1954. He went on to Princeton University
as an undergraduate and then to the University of Wisconsin-Madison
where he earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in physics in 1963. After graduation
he worked on bubble chamber physics at LBL as a University of Wisconsin
research associate. After Wisconsin he was a professor of physics at the
University of Michigan and Carnegie-Mellon University before coming to
Fermilab in 1972. He continued his bubble chamber activities at Michigan
and Carnegie-Mellon and then inaugurated a bubble chamber program when
he arrived at Fermilab. At Carnegie he developed several teaching
innovations including courses in relativity and new approaches to
laboratory classes.

When Murphy arrived at Fermilab he started a new career developing beams
and experimental facilities for the new Fermilab facility. Meanwhile he
continued his bubble chamber work. It was typical of Murphy that both
activities continued as full time efforts. Over the next 29 years Murphy
headed the Proton Laboratory, one of the three major experimental areas
at Fermilab at the time, the Beams Group, the Research Facilities
Department, and the Cryogenic Department in the Research Division. He
was a key person in the Tevatron installation. Murphy was an expert in
the surveying requirements of large accelerator facilities, eventually
serving as a consultant to the Superconducting Super Collider project in
this area.

His bubble chamber work at Fermilab included bubble chamber weak
interaction studies. Murphy was spokesman for the Fermilab bubble
chamber experiment E-194, a study of proton interactions in Deuterium.
Soon he developed an interest in electronic experiments, culminating in
an extensive program to study chi states and B mesons. The possibilities
for using very high energy proton beams to produce large samples of B
mesons led Murphy to combine his research and beams interests in an
innovative proposal to extract a 20 TeV beam from the SSC using bent
crystal channeling. Murphy then led a very successful test of the
process at the Tevatron.

Throughout his professional life Murphy continued to be interested in
travel and contacts with scientists throughout the world. He developed
an extensive network in Europe and Russia to support the SSC/Tevatron
extraction test. Murphy worked on leave at CERN in 1985-85, the
University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1991 and Frascati in \<?\>. Beyond
physics, Murphy was fond of music. Only days before the accident he had
led Fermilab in singing "Happy Birthday" in Italian and English on the
occasion of the 100^th^ anniversary of Enrico Fermi's birth.

====================================================

From the Batavia Chronicle

C. Thornton Murphy was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he died Friday,
Oct. 12, 2001, at his home in Batavia, Illinois.

A physicist at Fermi National Accelerator laboratory for the last 29
years, Dr. Murphy graduated from Western Reserve Academy in 1954. He
went on to Princeton University as an undergraduate and then to the
University of Wisconsin-Madison where he earned his MS and Ph.D. in
physics. He was a professor of physics at the University of Michigan and
Carnegie-Mellon University before coming to Fermilab in 1972.

At Fermilab, as a particle physicist, Murphy was involved in the
development of several high energy beam lines. At the time of his death,
he was the manager for an accelerator improvement project to deliver 120
GeV beam to experiments planned for Fermilab\'s future program.

He previously served as coordinator for the installation of Fermilab\'s
superconducting accelerator, the Tevatron and one of the two major
colliding beam experiments. Twice he was on sabbatical projects at the
CERN Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland and Frascati, Italy.

He served as head of Fermilab\'s survey and alignment group and he was a
former head of the Proton Laboratory.

He toured Italy as a youth with his family, beginning a life-long
passion for travel that took him to China, Russia and back to Italy and
Europe many times. His

other passions included music. the arts, astronomy and especially opera.

From the Fermilab web page

Thornton Murphy, a long-time physicist at Fermilab, ID 02125, died

on Friday, October 12, at age 63 at his home in Batavia. A

memorial service was held Monday, Oct. 15 at the

Yurs-Peterson-Moss Funeral Home.

Thornton joined Fermilab in 1972. His recent work focused on a

new beam line for future experiments. As a project leader,

Thornton supervised the installation of equipment for the new beam

line in an already existing tunnel. Scientists will use the new beam

line to create test beams and send 120 GeV protons to the new

CKM experiment. Thornton was involved in the beam line project

since its design phase.

In the past, Thornton served as head of

Fermilab\'s survey and alignment group

and head of the Proton Laboratory. He

was coordinator for the installation of the

Tevatron accelerator and worked on

several high-energy beam lines.

Thornton graduated from Western Reserve

Academy in 1954. He completed his

undergraduate studies at Princeton

University. He earned his M.S. and Ph. D.

at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Before coming to Fermilab, Thornton was

a professor of physics at the University of

Michigan and Carnegie Mellon University.

CV from Craig Moore

April 14, 1994

Charles Thornton Murphy

Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

AB, Princeton University, 1959

MA, University of Wisconsin, 1960

PhD (Physics) , University of Wisconsin, 1963

POSITIONS

Research Associate, Univ. of Wisconsin (at LBL, Berkeley) , 1963-64

Assistant Prof. Physics, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) , 1964-68

Assistant Prof. Physics, Carnegie-Mellon University, 1968-70

Associate Prof. Physics, Carnegie-Mellon University, 1970-73

Scientist, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) ,
1973-present

Associate Head, Proton Department, 1976-77 Head, Proton Department,
1977-79

Associate Head, Accelerator Systems Department/Tevatron, 1980-83, in
charge of

Tevatron accelerator installation

Project Leader, Direct Neutral Lepton Fa\~ility, 1984-1986

Head, Beams Group/Research Division, 1984-85

Visiting Scientist, LEP Project, CERN, 1985-86

Head, Cryogenics Department/Research Division, 1986-88

Associate Head for Installation, D0 Construction Dept., 1988-1991

Consultant to the SSC on survey, alignment, and installation, 1989-19

Head, Research Facilities Dept., Research Division, 1992-1996

...

Visiting Professor of Physics, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1991

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Weak interactions in bubble chambers (Experiments 546,745,782)

Proton-deuteron interactions at 200 and 400 GeV (Spokesperson, Exp. 194)

Direct photon production (Experiments 95, 705)

Hadronic production of chi states (Experiment 705)

Hadronic production of B mesons (Experiment 771, Do)

Production of the top quark (DO)

Accelerator Physics: alignment and survey, beamline optics and design,
cryogenics

installation & project management (Tevatron, DO Colliding Detector)

RF perturbations leading to halo generation

Spokesperson, Tevatron Experiment 853, very slow extraction by
channeling with a bent

crystal

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

University of Wisconsin, 1959-60:

Freshman physics sections & lab, \"pre-med\" physics University of
Michigan, 1963-1968:

Freshman physics sections, engineering students

Lecturer, Junior level course on electromagnetism

Lecturer, Junior-senior level course on electromagnetic waves

> (a new course established by myself, became a permanent course) .
> Coordinator & Mentor, Senior Seminar

Carnegie-Mellon University, 1968-73:

> Lecturer and Co-chairman, Freshman Engineering Physics {300 student
> Lecturer and Chairman, Honors Physics for Freshman {100 students)
>
> initiated the practice of having all students build, use, and
> understand a Radio Shack volt-ohmmeter for the laboratory part of the
> \~ourse, became a permanent practice
>
> Lecturer and Co-chairman, Freshman Physics & Calculus {300 students
> Teacher/Tutor, Experimental Physics Lab for Physics Majors {25 stud,
> Lecturer, \"Senior level course on Special Relativity
>
> {a course established by myself, became a permanent course) Teacher,
> Senior Study Group on General Relativity

Fermilab, 1981 and 1986:

> Lecturer, Special Relativity, Saturday Morning Physics for very
> selected high school students

University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1991: Lecturer, \"Physics for Poets\"