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David Paul Saltzberg is an experimental particle physicist and a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, who is known for his science consultancy work on various television shows and films, such as The Big Bang Theory, Manhattan and Oppenheimer.
David Saltzberg is a physicist who works on proton collider physics and cosmic neutrino detection. He also consults for TV shows like The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon.
David Saltzberg, Ph.D. (b. 1967) is an astroparticle physicist and the science consultant for the CBS television situation-comedy, The Big Bang Theory, checking scripts and meeting with the producers, writers, actors, set decorators, prop masters, and other crew to help ensure scientific...
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Sep 23, 2013 · But behind the scenes is a real-life professor, David Saltzberg of UCLA. Saltzberg studies high-energy particle physics and high-energy neutrino astronomy, using radio-detection techniques...
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Prof. Saltzberg is a proton collider physicist and a cosmic neutrino hunter. He works on the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment at CERN and the ANITA experiment with NASA.
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Learn about David Saltzberg, a UCLA professor who works on particle physics at CERN and advises the CBS comedy The Big Bang Theory. Find out how he got involved in science in entertainment, what he does for the show, and what he thinks of The Science & Entertainment Exchange.
David Saltzberg received his Ph.D. from University of Chicago in 1994 for work in particle physics at the Fermilab Tevatron. After a postdoctoral appointment at CERN in Geneva, he joined the faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1997.
