Chris Quigg (born December 15, 1944) is an

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at the

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(Fermilab). He graduated from Yale University in 1966 and received his Ph.D. in 1970 under the tutelage of J. D. Jackson at the

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. He has been an associate professor at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 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 H. B. Thacker in 1977 he identified the uppermost theoretical mass scale for the Higgs boson. In 1984 he coauthored "Supercollider Physics" (with

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, Kenneth Lane and Ian Hinchliffe), which has strongly influenced the quest for future discoveries at hadron colliders, such as the Fermilab

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, the SSC, and the LHC at CERN. 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 ''

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Awards and honors

Quigg was a recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship, 1974–1978, and was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 1983. In 2011 Quigg with

, Ian Hinchliffe, and Kenneth Lane won the J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics ''"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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