Sherman Frankel

My recent work dealt with color transparency and nuclear transparency in nuclei and searches for the quark-gluon plasma. My present physics deals with problems relating to magnetic monopoles and their connection with astrophysics and particle physics experiments. I continue to work on "Physics and Public Policy", publishing articles on missile defense and new smart decoys. I now use my physics training to study the efficacy and safety of new medical drugs and procedures and have an fMRI-cognitive test research program relating to distinguishing between aging and dementia, as well as a Penn collaboration, placing cognitive tests on the web.

• Prof. Emeritus
• Staff Member, M.I.T. Radiation Laboratory (1943-6)
• Associate Editor, Review of Scientific Instruments, 1950s
• Faculty, University of Pennsylvania (1950-)
• John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, 1956, 1978
• Guest Scientist: Niels Bohr Inst (1957)
• CERN (1975); CEN de Saclay (1979)
• Guest Fellow, Stanford C.I.S.A.C. (1987)
• Brookings Institute (1987)
• Senior Fellow, MIT Security Studies Program (1998-)
• Visiting Prof., Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley 2002-
• Guest Physicist, Lawrence Radiation lab., Berkeley CA 2002-

Selected Physics Publications:

• "J/Psi Suppression and the Quark-Gluon Plasma" Phys. Lett. B 441 (1998)
• "Atomic Number Dependence of High Q2 Interactions in Nuclei"
• "Scalar and Pseudoscalar Charges" Am. J. Phys. Vol.44, No.7, July 1976

Selected Public Policy Publications:

• "Countermeasures and Theater Missile Defense", Surface Warfare, US Navy, 21 4 38-40 (1996)
• "Measures of Proscar, Hytrin and Cardura Side-Effects" Neurology and Urodynamics 16:63-66 (1997)
• "Screening for Prostate Cancer", Scientific American (Jan. 1997)
• "Prostate Size Dependence of Proscar Efficacy", Urology (October, 1998)
• "Study of FDA Files on Propecia", Archives of Dermatology Vol. 135 (1999)