Chris Quigg (born December 15, 1944) is an American theoretical physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab). He graduated from Yale University in 1966 and received his Ph.D. in 1970 under the tutelage of J. D. Jackson at the University of California, Berkeley. He has been an associate professor at the Institute for Theoretical Physics,

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, and was head of the Theoretical Physics Department at Fermilab from 1977 to 1987.

Contributions to physics

Quigg's contributions range over many topics in particle physics. With Benjamin Lee and

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in 1977 he identified the uppermost theoretical mass scale for the

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. In 1984 he coauthored "Supercollider Physics" (with Estia Eichten, Kenneth Lane and

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), which has strongly influenced the quest for future discoveries at hadron colliders, such as the Fermilab Tevatron, the SSC, and the

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. He is also author of ''Gauge Theories of the Strong, Weak, and Electromagnetic Interactions''. He has made many other significant contributions to the study of the spectroscopy of heavy-light mesons, signatures for the production of heavy quarks and quarkonium, and the study of ultrahigh-energy neutrino interactions. He is an international lecturer and public speaker, and has been Editor of the '' Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science''.

Awards and honors

Quigg was a recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship, 1974–1978, and was elected a fellow of the

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in 1983. In 2011 Quigg with Estia Eichten,

, and Kenneth Lane won the

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''"For their work, separately and collectively, to chart a course of the exploration of TeV scale physics using multi-TeV hadron colliders"'' American Physical Society - J. J. Sakurai Prize Winners
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Selected publications

* ''Gauge theory of the strong, weak and electromagnetic interactions.'' Benjamin Cummings 1983, Westview Press 1997,

* with Jonathan L. Rosner: ''Quantum mechanics with application to Quarkonium.'' In: ''Physics Reports.'' vol. 56, 1979, pp. 167–235
''Electroweak Theory.''
TASI Lectures, 2002 (PDF; 702 kB).
''Nature's greatest puzzles.''
SLAC Summer Institute 2004 (PDF; 224 kB).
''Visions- the coming revolutions of particle physics.''
2002.
''Top-ology.''
(history of top-quark physics); shortened and revised version in:

References

External links

Web site at Fermilab

HEPNames profile: Chris Quigg
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