John F. Gunion
John Francis Gunion (born July 21, 1943 in Washington, DC ) is an American physicist who deals with theoretical elementary particle physics.
Gunion graduated from Cornell University with a bachelor's degree in 1965 and his master's degree from the University of California, Davis , where he received his doctorate in 1970. As a post-doctoral student , he was at SLAC and MIT. In 1973 he became an assistant professor and then an associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh and in 1978 he became a professor at the University of California, Davis. In 2017 he retired as Distinguished Professor.
He led the Department of Energy's theory group in high energy physics and initiated the High Energy Frontier Theory Initiative.
He dealt early on with experimental signatures and strategies for the search for the Higgs, which was recognized by the fact that he was accepted into the CMS collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider . This discovered the Higgs with the ATLAS collaboration and Gunion was co-author of the essay in which the CMS collaboration communicated their discovery. He is co-author of an influential handbook on the Higgs particle search.
He is currently working on extended Higgs models (physics beyond the Standard Model) and experiments that could clarify this.
In 2017 he received the Sakurai Prize for fundamental contributions to the properties, reactions and signatures of the Higgs boson (laudation). From 1974 to 1978 he was a Sloan Research Fellow and in 1989 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . In 2000 he was Schrödinger Professor at the Schrödinger Institute of the University of Vienna. He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science .
Fonts
- with Howard Haber , Gordon L. Kane , Sally Dawson : The Higg`s Hunters Guide, Addison-Wesley 1990, Westview Press 2000
Web links
- Homepage
- Sakurai Prize to Gunion
- Literature by and about John F. Gunion in the WorldCat bibliographic database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Birth and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gunion, John F. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gunion, John Francis (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 21, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Washington, DC |