physics professor
Sekazi Kauze Mtingwa is a physics professor with faculty positions at both North Carolina A&T State University and Morgan State University. He was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and received his B.S. from MIT and Ph.D. from Princeton University. He worked as a research physicist at Fermilab and at Argonne National Lab.
Mtngwa’s focus has been on particle accelerators. At Fermilab, he developed a theory of “intrabeam scattering” in particle accelerators. He also contributed in a significant way to two of the antiproton source accelerator systems, which were instrumental in particle discoveries, including that of the top quark.
Mtingwa is a cofounder and former president of the National Society of Black Physicists and a fellow of both the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was awarded the 2017 Robert E. Wilson Prize for Achievement in the Physics of Particle Accelerators. He received the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM) award in 2019.
Relevant Courses at SUNY New Paltz
PHY201 – General Physics 1
PHY 309 – Modern Physics
PHY 493 – Particle Physics
Photo 1: Mtingwa; Argonne National Laboratory
Photo 2: Mtngwa holding PAESMEM award.