{{short description|American theoretical particle physicist}} {{Notability|Academics|date=October 2020}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Devin George Edward Walker | image = | caption = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | field = Theoretical Physics<br/>Particle Physics | work_institution = Dartmouth<br/>Stanford Linear Accelerator Center<br/>Stanford University<br/>University of Washington | alma_mater = Harvard University<br/>Hampton University | doctoral_advisor = Nima Arkani-Hamed<br/>Howard Georgi | doctoral_students = | known_for = | societies = | prizes = | religion = | footnotes = }}
'''Devin George Edward Walker''' is an American theoretical particle physicist, best known for his work on dark matter.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Charlotte |first1=Albright |title=Dark Matter: You Can't See It, but It's Everywhere |url=https://news.dartmouth.edu/news/2017/09/dark-matter-you-cant-see-it-its-everywhere |accessdate=6 October 2020 |publisher=Dartmouth News |date=25 September 2017}}</ref>
==Education== Devin Walker received his bachelor's degree in physics from Hampton University, where he studied with physics professor Warren Buck.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Physics |first=American Institute of |date=2022-03-10 |title=Warren W. Buck |url=https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/oral-histories/47040 |access-date=2022-08-22 |website=www.aip.org |language=en}}</ref><ref name="PPFP" /> He studied dark matter as a doctoral student at Harvard University under Nima Arkani-Hamed, culminating in the thesis "Theories on the Origin of Mass and Dark Matter".<ref name=PPFP>{{cite web |url=https://ppfp.ucop.edu/info/fellowship-recipients/fellows-pages/walker-devin.html | title=University of California - President's Postdoctoral Fellowship}}</ref> Walker became the first American-born and American-educated Black physicist to earn a doctorate from the Harvard Physics Department in 2005.<ref name = "Harvard Physics PhDs">{{cite web |url=https://www.physics.harvard.edu/academics/phds | title=Harvard PhD Theses in Physics, 2001-2020 }}</ref>
==Career== Walker was awarded the prestigious President's Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of California at Berkeley, during which he worked on a framework to detect electroweak symmetry breaking from generic Large Hadron Collider (LHC) data.<ref name=PPFP/> He went on to another postdoctoral appointment at Stanford, and a junior professorship at the University of Washington.<ref name = "Dartmouth Department of Physics and Astronomy">{{cite web |url=https://physics.dartmouth.edu/people/devin-g-walker | title = Dartmouth Department of Physics and Astronomy | date = 23 September 2016 }}</ref>
Walker is currently a research professor at the Dartmouth Department of Physics and Astronomy.<ref name="Dartmouth Department of Physics and Astronomy"/>
==Awards== * 2020 - Moore Prize from the American Physical Society<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.aps.org/programs/innovation/moore/recipients.cfm|title=Fundamental Physics Innovation Awards|publisher=American Physical Society|date=March 2020|accessdate=27 October 2020}}</ref> * 2011 - Ford Foundation Fellowship<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nrc58.nas.edu/FordFellows20/Directory_Ford30/ModulePage.aspx?q=0XOQSLH/Mdbhztp787Nx0mYUuOPuK2uD7lpjYunLcLc=&qh=e7BsgMLmza34dF00fQiXldf1hKPUiafrqdvRQNa86ek6h7qKqSgNMkFD2aJLTePvCj7rirxHsmdbggHUeB+Jig==&Nav=FellowDetail|title=Ford Foundation Fellowship Programs|publisher=National Academy of Sciences|date=2019|accessdate=27 October 2020}}</ref> * 2010 - LHC Theory Initiative Fellowship<ref>[http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~orr/LHC-TI/Fellows_List.html LHC Theory Initiative Fellowship 2010]</ref>
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==External links== * [https://physics.dartmouth.edu/people/devin-g-walker Faculty webpage of Devin Walker at Dartmouth University] * [https://sites.dartmouth.edu/dgewalker/ Devin Walker Personal Website]
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