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Chris Quigg (Fermilab)
Chris Quigg graduated in physics from Yale in 1966 and received
his
Ph.D. at Berkeley in 1970. After four years in the
Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook, he moved to
Fermilab,
which has been his scientific home ever since. He was for ten years
Head of Fermilab's Theoretical Physics Department, and held a joint
appointment at the University of Chicago from 1974 to 1991. In 1987 he
returned to Berkeley to serve for two years as Deputy Director of the
Superconducting Super Collider Central Design Group. He has held
visiting appointments at
École Normale
Supérieure in Paris, Cornell University, and Princeton
University; and as
Erwin Schrödinger Professor at the University of Vienna.
Quigg's research on
electroweak symmetry breaking and supercollider physics set the agenda
for the Large Hadron Collider under construction at the European Lab for
Particle Physics in Geneva. A new edition of his textbook, Gauge Theories of the Strong, Weak, and
Electromagnetic Interactions, is in the works.
Chris Quigg is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science and of the American Physical Society, and was awarded an Alfred P. Sloan
Research Fellowship. He was Editor of the Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle
Science from 1994 to 2004. As Chair of the APS Division of Particles and Fields,
he led the organization of Snowmass 2001: a Summer Study on the Future of
Particle Physics.
Quigg was a charter member of Saturday Morning
Physics, Fermilab's enrichment program for high school students. He is a
Trustee of the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy. He
was featured recently in The Ultimate Particle, a road movie of
particle physics broadcast on ARTE in France and Germany. Outside the
laboratory, he enjoys cooking, music, and hiking the long-distance paths
in France.
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