Devin George Edward Walker is an

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theoretical

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, best known for his work on

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Education

Devin Walker received his bachelor's degree in physics from

Hampton University Hampton University is a private, historically black, research university in Hampton, Virginia, United States. Founded in 1868 as Hampton Agricultural and Industrial School, it was established by Black and White leaders of the American Missiona ...

, where he studied with physics professor Warren Buck. He studied dark matter as a doctoral student at

Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...

under

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, culminating in the thesis "Theories on the Origin of Mass and Dark Matter". Walker became the first American-born and American-educated Black physicist to earn a doctorate from the Harvard Physics Department in 2005.

Career

Walker was awarded the prestigious President's Postdoctoral Fellowship at the

University of California at Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after the Anglo-Irish philosopher George Berkele ...

, during which he worked on a framework to detect electroweak symmetry breaking from generic Large Hadron Collider (LHC) data. He went on to another postdoctoral appointment at

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, and a junior professorship at the

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. Walker is currently a research professor at the Dartmouth Department of Physics and Astronomy.

Awards

* 2020 - Moore Prize from the

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* 2011 - Ford Foundation Fellowship * 2010 - LHC Theory Initiative FellowshipLHC Theory Initiative Fellowship 2010
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References

External links

Faculty webpage of Devin Walker at Dartmouth University

Devin Walker Personal Website
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