Estia Joseph Eichten (born 1946), is an American theoretical physicist, of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab). He received his Ph.D. in 1972 from the MIT Center for Theoretical Physics, where he was a student of Roman Jackiw's, and was Associate Professor of Physics at

Harvard Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

before joining the

Fermilab Theoretical Physics Department Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), located just outside Batavia, Illinois, near Chicago, is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory specializing in high-energy particle physics. Since 2007, Fermilab has been ope ...

in 1982. In 1984 Eichten coauthored "Supercollider Physics" (with Kenneth Lane,

Ian Hinchliffe Ian Hinchliffe (born 1952) is a British physicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He obtained his BA and his PhD in physics from Oxford University. In 1983 he became a Staff Senior Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, ...

and

Chris Quigg 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 th ...

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

LHC The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and highest-energy particle collider. It was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) between 1998 and 2008 in collaboration with over 10,000 scientists and hundre ...

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. He has made many other significant contributions, including the study of the spectroscopy of heavy-light mesons (for which he was an originator of the idea of heavy quark symmetry), quarkonium, and " technicolor" theories of dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking. In 2011 Eichten with

, 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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* Eichten'
publications on SPIRES
Living people 21st-century American physicists Harvard University faculty 1946 births Fellows of the American Physical Society Theoretical physicists J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics recipients People from Stillwater, Minnesota MIT Center for Theoretical Physics alumni {{US-physicist-stub