Howard Eli Haber (born 3 February 1952 in

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) is an American physicist, specializing in theoretical

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. Howard Haber received in 1973 his bachelor's degree and master's degree from

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(MIT) and received in 1978 his Ph.D. from the

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. He was a postdoc at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory from 1978 to 1980 and at the University of Pennsylvania from 1980 to 1982. He joined the faculty of the physics department and the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he became an associate professor in 1989 and a full professor in 1990 (continuing to the present). From 1982 to the present he has been a visiting physicist with the Theory Group at

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. From 1985 to 1988 Haber held an Outstanding Junior Investigator Award from DOE. In 1993 he was elected a Fellow of the

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. In 2009 he received a

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, with which he was a visiting professor at the University of Bonn. His research deals with the physics of the

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and also possible

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extensions such as the low-energy sector of

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theory, which he considers fundamental for the study of physics beyond the Standard Model. In 2017 he, together with three collaborators, received the

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for, according to the laudation, "instrumental contributions to the theory of the properties, reactions, and signatures of the Higgs boson".

Selected publications

* with John F. Gunion,

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: The Higgs Hunter's Guide, Addison Wesley 1990, Westview Press 2000
CRC Press 2018

References

External links

UCSC Homepage, Howard E. Haber
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