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American physicist and professor

Peter H. Fisher
Born1959
San Francisco, California
NationalityAmerican
Scientific career
InstitutionsJohns Hopkins University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thesis A search for double beta decay in Ge
Doctoral advisorFelix H. Boehm

Peter H. Fisher (born 1959) is an American experimental particle physicist, as well as the Thomas A. Frank (1977) Professor of Physics and the former head of the Department of Physics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.). He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Early life and education

Peter Fisher was born in 1959 in San Francisco, California.

He earned a B.S. in engineering physics at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1983, and a Ph.D. in nuclear physics at the California Institute of Technology in 1988. His dissertation, A search for double beta decay in Ge, was supervised by Felix H. Boehm.

Career

From 1989 to 1994, Fisher was on the faculty of Johns Hopkins University. He joined the M.I.T. faculty in 1989, and became a full professor in 2001.

Fisher's research has included twelve years at CERN working on the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer for the International Space Station. His research interests also include the detection of dark matter, development of new particle detectors, compact energy supplies, and wireless energy transmission. He released his first book in 2022, "What is Dark Matter?, synthesizing his own and peers research into the topic.

He was chair of the M.I.T. Department of Physics from 2014 to 2022. He became the first Head of the M.I.T Office of Research Computing and Data (ORCD) in 2022. He is a member of JASON (advisory group).

Awards

Fisher became a Fellow of the American Physical Society, nominated by the Division of Particles and Fields in 2006, and cited for "initiating Tau Polarization Asymmetry Measurements and W-Boson self couplings, leading to a top mass prediction (found later at FNAL). First proof of single W-production in e+ e- annihilation. Determination of sin20w with proposal to expand to highest accuracy of 10-5 at LHC." He was named a fellow for the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2020.

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