Davison Soper

Davison Eugene Soper (born March 21, 1943 in Milwaukee ) is an American theoretical elementary particle physicist.

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Soper studied at Amherst College (bachelor's degree in 1965) and at Stanford University , where he received his doctorate in 1971 with James Bjorken and worked with John Kogut . From 1971 to 1977 he was at Princeton University (most recently assistant professor) and then professor at the University of Oregon (from 1982 full professorship), where he was head of the physics department from 2004 to 2007.

In his doctoral thesis he dealt with light front formalism ( Null Plane Field Theory ) to describe the high-energy scattering processes in the then current Parton image. With George Sterman and John C. Collins he proved factorization theorems in perturbative quantum chromodynamics (QCD).

Soper is a member of the “Coordinated Experimental-Theoretical Project on QCD” (CTEQ), of which he was 2001-2004 spokesman. He was the editorial board of Physical Review Letters and Physical Review D .

In 2009 he received the Sakurai Prize with R. Keith Ellis and John C. Collins . In 2010 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society .

Fonts (selection)

• Classical Field Theory . Dover Publ., Mineola, NY 2008, ISBN 978-0-486-46260-8 (reprinted from Wiley ed., New York 1976).

Web links

• Literature by and about Davison Soper in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Sakurai Prize for Soper