Biography:Lawrence John Hall

Short description: Theoretical particle physicist

Lawrence John Hall
Alma mater	University of Oxford Harvard University (PhD)
Awards	Sloan Research Fellow APS Fellow
Scientific career
Fields	Particle physics
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley Harvard University
Academic advisors	Howard Georgi
Notable students	Nima Arkani-Hamed

Lawrence John Hall is a theoretical particle physicist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley and the Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics.

Biography

Hall received his bachelor's degree from Oxford in 1977 and his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1981 with Howard Georgi. He was a Miller Fellow at Berkeley and an assistant professor at Harvard where he was a Sloan Foundation Fellow, before becoming professor at Berkeley in 1983, where he won a Presidential Young Investigator Award.

Hall is notable for his theoretical contributions to a wide span of research topics such as physics beyond the Standard Model, including supersymmetry and dark matter, in addition to his work on the weak force, cosmology, and grand unified theories. He was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1993 "for numerous original contributions to the phenomenology of weak interaction, supersymmetry and supergravity, and the physics of the early universe."

His doctoral students include Nima Arkani-Hamed, Neal Weiner, and Hsin-Chia Cheng.