Biography:Devin George Edward Walker
Devin George Edward Walker | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | United States |
| Alma mater | Harvard University Hampton University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical Physics Particle Physics |
| Institutions | Dartmouth Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Stanford University University of Washington |
| Doctoral advisor | Nima Arkani-Hamed Howard Georgi |
Devin George Edward Walker is an American theoretical particle physicist, best known for his work on dark matter.[1]
Education
Devin Walker received his bachelor's degree in physics from Hampton University, where he studied with physics professor Warren Buck.[2][3] He studied dark matter as a doctoral student at Harvard University under Nima Arkani-Hamed, culminating in the thesis "Theories on the Origin of Mass and Dark Matter".[3] Walker became the first American-born and American-educated Black physicist to earn a doctorate from the Harvard Physics Department in 2005.[4]
Career
Walker was awarded the prestigious President's Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of California at Berkeley, during which he worked on a framework to detect electroweak symmetry breaking from generic Large Hadron Collider (LHC) data.[3] He went on to another postdoctoral appointment at Stanford, and a junior professorship at the University of Washington.[5]
Walker is currently a research professor at the Dartmouth Department of Physics and Astronomy.[5]
Awards
- 2020 - Moore Prize from the American Physical Society[6]
- 2011 - Ford Foundation Fellowship[7]
- 2010 - LHC Theory Initiative Fellowship[8]
References
- ↑ Charlotte, Albright (25 September 2017). "Dark Matter: You Can't See It, but It's Everywhere". Dartmouth News. https://news.dartmouth.edu/news/2017/09/dark-matter-you-cant-see-it-its-everywhere. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
- ↑ Physics, American Institute of (2022-03-10). "Warren W. Buck" (in en). https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/oral-histories/47040.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "University of California - President's Postdoctoral Fellowship". https://ppfp.ucop.edu/info/fellowship-recipients/fellows-pages/walker-devin.html.
- ↑ "Harvard PhD Theses in Physics, 2001-2020". https://www.physics.harvard.edu/academics/phds.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Dartmouth Department of Physics and Astronomy". 23 September 2016. https://physics.dartmouth.edu/people/devin-g-walker.
- ↑ "Fundamental Physics Innovation Awards". American Physical Society. March 2020. https://www.aps.org/programs/innovation/moore/recipients.cfm. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
- ↑ "Ford Foundation Fellowship Programs". National Academy of Sciences. 2019. https://nrc58.nas.edu/FordFellows20/Directory_Ford30/ModulePage.aspx?q=0XOQSLH/Mdbhztp787Nx0mYUuOPuK2uD7lpjYunLcLc=&qh=e7BsgMLmza34dF00fQiXldf1hKPUiafrqdvRQNa86ek6h7qKqSgNMkFD2aJLTePvCj7rirxHsmdbggHUeB+Jig==&Nav=FellowDetail. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
- ↑ LHC Theory Initiative Fellowship 2010
External links
- Faculty webpage of Devin Walker at Dartmouth University
- Devin Walker Personal Website
- Congratulations to Devin Walker from Lubos Motl
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