# Chris Quigg > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Chris_Quigg > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Chris_Quigg.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Quigg > Source revision: 1347415422 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|American theoretical physicist}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Chris Quigg | image = Image:Dr Chris Quigg FNAL 2013-04-12.jpg | caption = Chris Quigg, giving a lecture at [Fermilab](/source/Fermilab). | birth_date = {{birth-date and age|December 15, 1944}} | birth_place = [Bainbridge, Maryland](/source/Bainbridge%2C_Maryland) | death_date = | death_place = | residence = | known_for = [Collider](/source/Collider) [phenomenology](/source/phenomenology_(particle_physics)) | alma_mater = [Yale University](/source/Yale_University)
[University of California, Berkeley](/source/University_of_California%2C_Berkeley) | doctoral_advisor = [J. D. Jackson](/source/John_David_Jackson_(physicist)) | thesis_title = Two Reggeon exchange contributions to hadron scattering amplitudes at high energy{{cite web|title=Ph.D. and M.Sc. students supervised by John David Jackson|date=5 April 2004|url=http://www-theory.lbl.gov/jdj/PhD&MSc_students.pdf|website=www-theory.lbl.gov}} | thesis_year = 1970 | doctoral_students = | work_institution = [Fermilab](/source/Fermilab)
[Stony Brook University](/source/Stony_Brook_University) | prizes = [Sakurai Prize](/source/Sakurai_Prize) (2011) | footnotes = }} '''Chris Quigg''' (born December 15, 1944) is an [American](/source/Americans) [theoretical physicist](/source/theoretical_physicist) at the [Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory](/source/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](/source/John_David_Jackson_(physicist)) at the [University of California, Berkeley](/source/University_of_California%2C_Berkeley). He has been an associate professor at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, [State University of New York, Stony Brook](/source/State_University_of_New_York%2C_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](/source/Benjamin_W._Lee) and [H. B. Thacker](/source/H._B._Thacker) in 1977 he identified the uppermost theoretical mass scale for the [Higgs boson](/source/Higgs_boson).{{cite journal |author1=Benjamin W. Lee |author2=C. Quigg |author3=H. B. Thacker | title=Strength of Weak Interactions at Very High Energies and the Higgs Boson Mass | journal=Physical Review Letters | volume=38 | issue=16 | pages=883–885 | year=1977 | doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.38.883 | bibcode=1977PhRvL..38..883L}}{{cite journal |author1=Benjamin W. Lee |author2=C. Quigg |author3=H. B. Thacker | title=Weak interactions at very high energies: The role of the Higgs-boson mass | journal=Physical Review | volume=D16 | issue=5 | pages=1519–1531 | year=1977 | doi=10.1103/PhysRevD.16.1519|bibcode = 1977PhRvD..16.1519L }} In 1984 he coauthored "Supercollider Physics" (with [Estia Eichten](/source/Estia_Eichten), [Kenneth Lane](/source/Kenneth_Lane_(physicist)) and [Ian Hinchliffe](/source/Ian_Hinchliffe)), which has strongly influenced the quest for future discoveries at hadron colliders, such as the Fermilab [Tevatron](/source/Tevatron), the [SSC](/source/Superconducting_Super_Collider), and the [LHC](/source/Large_Hadron_Collider) at [CERN](/source/CERN).{{cite journal |author1=E. Eichten |author2=I. Hinchliffe |author3=K. Lane |author4=C. Quigg | title=Supercollider Physics | journal=Reviews of Modern Physics | volume=56 | issue=4 | pages=579–707 | year=1984 | doi=10.1103/RevModPhys.56.579 | bibcode=1984RvMP...56..579E}} He is also author of ''Gauge Theories of the Strong, Weak, and Electromagnetic Interactions''.{{cite book | author=Chris Quigg | title=Gauge Theories of the Strong, Weak, and Electromagnetic Interactions | publisher=Westview Press | series=Advanced Book Classics | year=1997 | isbn=978-0-201-32832-5}} 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 ''[Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science](/source/Annual_Reviews_(publisher))''. {{blockquote|He was a consultant to [WQED](/source/WQED_(TV)) and the National Academy of Sciences for the ''Infinite Voyage'' television series and a featured speaker in the companion Discovery Lectures on college campuses. He gave the first Carl Sagan Memorial Lecture in the series ''Cosmos Revisited'' at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. He was featured in ''The Ultimate Particle'', a road movie of particle physics broadcast on [ARTE](/source/Arte) in France and Germany.{{cite web|title=Chris Quigg, Brief Biography|website=lutece.fnal.gov, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory|url=https://lutece.fnal.gov/Essays/Bio2.html}}}} With Robert N. Cahn, he wrote ''Grace in All Simplicity'', subtitled "Beauty, Truth, and Wonders on the Path to the Higgs Boson and New Laws of Naturea", a popular book on the history and development of the [Standard Model](/source/Standard_Model) of particle physics, ==Awards and honors== Quigg was a recipient of the [Alfred P. Sloan Foundation](/source/Alfred_P._Sloan_Foundation) Research Fellowship, 1974–1978, and was elected a fellow of the [American Physical Society](/source/American_Physical_Society) in 1983. In 2011 Quigg with [Estia Eichten](/source/Estia_Eichten), [Ian Hinchliffe](/source/Ian_Hinchliffe), and [Kenneth Lane](/source/Kenneth_Lane_(physicist)) won the [J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics](/source/Sakurai_Prize) ''"For their work, separately and collectively, to chart a course of the exploration of TeV scale physics using multi-TeV hadron colliders"'' [http://www.aps.org/units/dpf/awards/sakurai.cfm American Physical Society - J. J. Sakurai Prize Winners] ==Selected publications== * ''Gauge theory of the strong, weak and electromagnetic interactions.'' Benjamin Cummings 1983, Westview Press 1997, {{ISBN|0-201-32832-1}}. [https://books.google.com/books/about/Gauge_Theories_of_the_Strong_Weak_and_El.html?id=Lt6thfc1gAgC 2nd edition, 2013] * with Jonathan L. Rosner: ''Quantum mechanics with application to Quarkonium.'' In: ''Physics Reports.'' vol. 56, 1979, pp. 167–235 {{doi|10.1016/0370-1573(79)90095-4}} * [https://arxiv.org/PS_cache/hep-ph/pdf/0204/0204104v1.pdf ''Electroweak Theory.''] TASI Lectures, 2002 (PDF; 702 kB). * [https://arxiv.org/PS_cache/hep-ph/pdf/0502/0502070v1.pdf ''Nature's greatest puzzles.''] SLAC Summer Institute 2004 (PDF; 224 kB). * [http://xxx.uni-augsburg.de/pdf/hep-ph/0204075v1 ''Visions- the coming revolutions of particle physics.''] 2002. * [http://xxx.uni-augsburg.de/abs/hep-ph/9704332 ''Top-ology.''] (history of top-quark physics); shortened and revised version in: {{cite journal|title=Top-ology|journal=Physics Today|volume=50|issue=5|pages=20–26|doi=10.1063/1.881890|arxiv=hep-ph/9704332|bibcode=1997PhT....50e..20Q|year=1997|last1=Quigg|first1=Chris}} * [https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Grace-in-All-Simplicity/Robert-N-Cahn/9781639364817 ''Grace in All Simplicity''], Cahn, Robert N, and Quigg, Chris, Pegasus Books, 2023, {{ISBN|9781639364817}} ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== {{wikiquote}} * [http://lutece.fnal.gov/ Web site at Fermilab] * [http://inspirehep.net/record/992527 HEPNames profile: Chris Quigg] * {{INSPIRE-HEP author}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Quigg, Chris}} Category:1944 births Category:Living people Category:21st-century American physicists Category:Yale University alumni Category:University of California, Berkeley alumni Category:American theoretical physicists Category:J. 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