Biography:Dan Hooper

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Short description: American cosmologist and particle physicist (born 1976)
Daniel Wayne Hooper
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Dan Hooper lectures during Fermilab's Saturday Morning Physics lecture on January 7, 2017
Born
Minnesota, United States
Alma materUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison (PhD)
Known forResearch in dark matter, particle physics, and cosmology
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics, Cosmology, Astrophysics
InstitutionsFermilab, University of Chicago, University of Oxford
Doctoral advisorFrancis Halzen

Daniel Wayne Hooper (born December 16, 1976) is an American cosmologist and particle physicist specializing in the areas of dark matter, cosmic rays, and neutrino astrophysics. He is a senior scientist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory[1] and a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Chicago.[2]

Hooper is the author of several books, including Dark Cosmos: In Search of our Universe’s Missing Mass and Energy (2006),[3] Nature’s Blueprint: Supersymmetry and the Search for a Unified Theory of Matter and Force (2008),[4] and At the Edge of Time: Exploring the Mysteries of Our Universe's First Seconds (2019).[5]

Career

Hooper received his PhD in physics in 2003 from the University of Wisconsin,[2] under the supervision of Francis Halzen. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford between 2003 and 2005, and the David Schramm Fellow at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) from 2005 until 2007.[6] He is currently a senior scientist at Fermilab[1] and a professor in the astronomy and astrophysics department at the University of Chicago.[2] He is also a member of the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics (KICP) at the University of Chicago.[7] Since 2017, he has been the head of Fermilab's Theoretical Astrophysics Group.[1]

Hooper has authored or co-authored over 200 articles published in peer-reviewed scientific journals.[8] The most highly cited of these papers includes a 2005 review of dark matter (co-authored by Gianfranco Bertone and Joseph Silk),[9] as well as a series of papers written between 2009 and 2014 on the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope's Galactic Center excess and its possible connection to annihilating dark matter.[10][11][12][13] In 2017 he was elected to become a fellow of the American Physical Society, "For pursuing the identity of dark matter by combining careful analysis of observational data with theoretical ideas from both particle physics and astrophysics."[14]

Popular books and podcast

Hooper is the author of two books published by Smithsonian Books/HarperCollins. The first, Dark Cosmos: In Search of our Universe’s Missing Mass and Energy (2006) was named a notable book by Seed Magazine.[15] His second book, Nature’s Blueprint: Supersymmetry and the Search for a Unified Theory of Matter and Force (2008), was called "essential reading" by New Scientist.[4]

Hooper's third book is At the Edge of Time: Exploring the Mysteries of Our Universe's First Seconds (2019), published by Princeton University Press.[5]

Since 2020, Dan Hooper and Shalma Wegsman have run the physics podcast Why This Universe? which appears every other week.[16]

In popular culture

Hooper has also written for popular magazines including Astronomy,[17] Sky and Telescope,[18] and New Scientist,[19] and appeared on television and radio programs including Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman (season 4), BBC's Horizon,[20] BBC World News, Space's Deepest Secrets,[20] and NPR's Science Friday.[21][22][23]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Dan Hooper". APS Physics. https://physics.aps.org/authors/dan_hooper. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Dan Hooper". The University of Chicago. http://astro.uchicago.edu/people/dan-hooper.php. 
  3. ↑ Lincoln, Don (December 1, 2006). "Reviewed: Dark Cosmos: In search of our universe's missing mass and energy". Symmetry Magazine. https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/december-2006/dark-cosmos-in-search-of-our-universe%E2%80%99s-missing-mass-and-energy. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Jamieson, Valerie (October 1, 2008). "Review: Nature's Blueprint by Dan Hooper". https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026766-100-review-natures-blueprint-by-dan-hooper/. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 At the Edge of Time. Princeton University Press. 2019. ISBN 9780691183565. https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691183565/at-the-edge-of-time. Retrieved January 25, 2020. 
  6. ↑ "Dan Hooper". Fermilab. http://home.fnal.gov/~dhooper/. 
  7. ↑ "Daniel Hooper". University of Chicago. http://kicp.uchicago.edu/people/profile/daniel_hooper.html. 
  8. ↑ "Hooper, Daniel W.". INSPIRE. https://inspirehep.net/author/profile/D.W.Hooper.1. 
  9. ↑ Bertone, Gianfranco; Hooper, Dan; Silk, Joseph (2005). "Particle dark matter: Evidence, candidates and constraints" (in en). Physics Reports (Amsterdam) 405 (5–6): 279–390. doi:10.1016/j.physrep.2004.08.031. ISSN 0370-1573. Bibcode: 2005PhR...405..279B. 
  10. ↑ Hooper, Dan; Goodenough, Lisa (2011). "Dark Matter Annihilation in the Galactic Center as Seen by the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope" (in en). Physics Letters B (Amsterdam) 697 (5): 412–428. doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2011.02.029. ISSN 0370-2693. Bibcode: 2011PhLB..697..412H. 
  11. ↑ Daylan, Tansu; Finkbeiner, Douglas P.; Hooper, Dan; Linden, Tim; Portillo, Stephen K. N.; Rodd, Nicholas L.; Slatyer, Tracy R. (2016). "The Characterization of the Gamma-Ray Signal from the Central Milky Way: A Case for Annihilating Dark Matter" (in en). Physics of the Dark Universe (Amsterdam: Elsevier) 12: 1–23. doi:10.1016/j.dark.2015.12.005. ISSN 2212-6864. Bibcode: 2016PDU....12....1D. 
  12. ↑ Hooper, Dan; Linden, Tim (December 15, 2011). "On the Origin of the Gamma Rays from the Galactic Center" (in en). Physical Review D (College Park, MD: American Physical Society) 84 (12): 123005. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.84.123005. ISSN 2470-0010. Bibcode: 2011PhRvD..84l3005H. 
  13. ↑ Goodenough, Lisa; Hooper, Dan (October 2009) (in en). "Possible Evidence for Dark Matter Annihilation in the Inner Milky Way from the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope" (Report). Batavia, IL: Fermilab. FERMILAB-PUB-09-494-A. 
  14. ↑ "APS Fellow Archive". American Physical Society. http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm. 
  15. ↑ "Dark Cosmos". https://www.harpercollins.com/9780061130335/dark-cosmos. 
  16. ↑ "Why This Universe? - YouTube". https://www.youtube.com/@whythisuniverse1488/about. 
  17. ↑ "5 Questions With David J Eicher: Episode 5 – Dan Hooper". Kalmbach Publishing Co.. May 4, 2017. http://www.astronomy.com/magazine/five-questions-david-eicher/2017/05/five-questions-podcast-with-dan-hooper. 
  18. ↑ The Editors of Sky & Telescope (November 26, 2012). "Sky & Telescope January 2013". http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/sky-2013/. 
  19. ↑ Hooper, Dan (February 2, 2011). "Dark Matter: The Evidence". https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20927982.800-dark-matter-the-evidence/. 
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 "Dan Hooper". Internet Movie Database. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5994185/. 
  21. ↑ "Massive Particle Accelerator Is Ready To Go". National Public Radio. August 29, 2008. https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=94110460. 
  22. ↑ "Magnet Meltdown At The Large Hadron Collider". National Public Radio. September 26, 2008. https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=95085982. 
  23. ↑ "Dan Hooper". Science Friday Initiative. https://www.sciencefriday.com/person/dan-hooper/. 

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