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Devin George Edward Walker is an American theoretical particle physicist, best known for his work on dark matter.[1]
Devin George Edward Walker | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| 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 |
Education
editDevin 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
editWalker 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
edit- 2020 - Moore Prize from the American Physical Society[6]
- 2011 - Ford Foundation Fellowship[7]
- 2010 - LHC Theory Initiative Fellowship[8]
References
edit- ^ Charlotte, Albright (25 September 2017). "Dark Matter: You Can't See It, but It's Everywhere". Dartmouth News. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
- ^ Physics, American Institute of (2022-03-10). "Warren W. Buck". www.aip.org. Retrieved 2022-08-22.
- ^ a b c "University of California - President's Postdoctoral Fellowship".
- ^ "Harvard PhD Theses in Physics, 2001-2020".
- ^ a b "Dartmouth Department of Physics and Astronomy". 23 September 2016.
- ^ "Fundamental Physics Innovation Awards". American Physical Society. March 2020. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
- ^ "Ford Foundation Fellowship Programs". National Academy of Sciences. 2019. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
- ^ LHC Theory Initiative Fellowship 2010