Ian Hinchliffe (born 1952) is a British

physicist A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe. Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate caus ...

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. He obtained his BA and his PhD in

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from

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. In 1983 he became a Staff Senior Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he served as head of the

theoretical physics Theoretical physics is a branch of physics that employs mathematical models and abstractions of physical objects and systems to rationalize, explain and predict natural phenomena. This is in contrast to experimental physics, which uses experim ...

group from 1992 to 1999. Trained in theoretical physics, his primary activity is with the

ATLAS experiment ATLAS is the largest general-purpose particle detector experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a particle accelerator at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Switzerland. The experiment is designed to take advantage ...

CERN The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN (; ; ), is an intergovernmental organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world. Established in 1954, it is based in a northwestern suburb of Gene ...

Large Hadron Collider 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 hundred ...

, which he joined in 1996; he served as ATLAS physics coordinator in 2006–2007 and currently heads Berkeley Lab's ATLAS group. His research emphasizes the importance of experiment in testing theoretical ideas, and in driving theoretical developments aimed at understanding interactions among fundamental particles. Much of his research looks to show how the

Standard Model The Standard Model of particle physics is the theory describing three of the four known fundamental forces (electromagnetism, electromagnetic, weak interaction, weak and strong interactions - excluding gravity) in the universe and classifying a ...

can be tested at hadron colliders. In 2011, Hinchliffe,

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 ...

Estia Eichten 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 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".2011 J. J. Sakurai Prize Bio
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hinchliffe, Ian 1952 births Living people Particle physicists Alumni of the University of Oxford University of California, Berkeley staff J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics recipients People associated with CERN Fellows of the American Physical Society

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