{{short description|American physicist}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2020}} {{infobox scientist | name = Heidi Marie Schellman | image = File:Heidi Schellman.jpg | alt = Portrait of Heidi Schellman | caption = Heidi Schellman, Head of Physics Department, Oregon State University | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1957}} | birth_place = Hennepin, Minnesota | alma_mater = University of California, Berkeley | thesis_title = Inclusive production of strange and vector mesons in e+ e- annihilation at 29-GeV | thesis_url = https://www.proquest.com/docview/303336828 | thesis_year = 1984 | doctoral_advisor = George H. Trilling }} '''Heidi Marie Schellman''' (born 1957) is an American particle physicist at Oregon State University (OSU), where she heads the Department of Physics. She is an expert in Quantum chromodynamics and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences.
==Early life and education== Schellman was born in 1957 in Hennepin, Minnesota, the daughter of two chemists. Her father, John Anthony Schellman, who trained at Princeton, was a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Oregon; he was an early member of the "groundbreaking Institute of Molecular Biology"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://around.uoregon.edu/content/memorial-set-renowned-uo-scientist-john-schellman|title=Memorial set for renowned UO scientist John Schellman {{!}} Around the O|website=around.uoregon.edu|access-date=2016-07-27|date=2015-01-27}}</ref> and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://chemistry.uoregon.edu/profile/jschell/|title=John Schellman {{!}} Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry|website=chemistry.uoregon.edu|access-date=2016-07-27}}</ref> Her mother, F. Charlotte Green, held a Ph.D. in chemistry from Stanford and had also worked at the California Institute of Technology. They married in 1954 while they were both postdoctoral fellows at the Carlsberg Laboratory in Copenhagen, Denmark.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://musgroves.com/obituary.cfm?name=JohnSchellman|title=Musgrove Mortuaries & Cemeteries {{!}} John Schellman Obituary|website=musgroves.com|access-date=2016-07-27}}</ref> At the University of Oregon, both her parents "were known for advancing the study of protein structure, folding and stability through techniques such as circular dichroism spectroscopy".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.asbmb.org/asbmbtoday/asbmbtoday_article_print.aspx?id=5014|title=University of Oregon's Institute of Molecular Biology Celebrates 50 Years|website=www.asbmb.org|access-date=2016-07-27}}</ref>
Heidi Schellman graduated from South Eugene High School in Eugene, Oregon, in 1975.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://southeugene1975.classquest.com/main/default.aspx?details=E22520881378&siteid=E212430299&pageid=108534|title=Class of 1975 (South Eugene)|website=southeugene1975.classquest.com|access-date=2016-07-27}}</ref> She earned a B.S. in mathematics in 1977 from Stanford University and an M.S. and Ph.D. in physics by 1984 from the University of California, Berkeley.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.physics.oregonstate.edu/~schellmh/|title=Heidi Schellman, Physics|website=www.physics.oregonstate.edu|access-date=2016-07-24}}</ref>
Schellman married physicist Stephen A. Wolbers in 1983.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?_phsrc=exz3&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&gss=angs-g&new=1&rank=1&msT=1&gsfn=Heidi%2520Marie&gsfn_x=0&gsln=Schellman&gsln_x=0&MSAV=1&cp=0&catbucket=rstp&uidh=ro8&pcat=ROOT_CATEGORY&h=6424985&recoff=8%25209%252010&db=CaMarrIndex&indiv=1&ml_rpos=3|title=Heidi M Schellman in the California Marriage Index, 1960-1985|website=ancestry.com|publisher=|access-date=2016-07-27|url-access=subscription}}</ref>
== Career and research == Schellman began her career as a programmer at the Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC),<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=http://www.corvallisadvocate.com/2014/dr-heidi-schellman-to-lead-osu-physics/|title=Dr. Heidi Schellman to Lead OSU Physics {{!}} The Corvallis Advocate|website=www.corvallisadvocate.com|access-date=2016-07-27|date=2014-09-11}}</ref> where she learned "she liked the mixture of theory and practice in experimental physics. She describes her love of physics succinctly: 'Physicists get to build things!' ".<ref name=":2" />
Prior to joining the OSU faculty in 2015, she held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Chicago and Fermilab, and was on the faculty of Northwestern University,<ref name=":4">{{Cite web|url=http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/Heidi.M.Schellman.1|title=Schellman, Heidi Marie - Profile - INSPIRE-HEP|website=inspirehep.net|access-date=2016-07-24}}</ref> where she was chair of the physics and astronomy programs at the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences.<ref name=":2" />
In 2015, Schellman was elected vice chair of the Commission on Particles and Fields within the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|url=http://www.gazettetimes.com/business/local/movers-and-shakers-sept/article_0a7bebc5-a529-5664-8356-b4022d078f25.html|title=Movers and Shakers|date=2015-09-14|website=Corvallis Gazette-Times|access-date=2016-07-27}}</ref>
Schellman's research interests include, "future high-intensity neutrino experiments and the relation between cosmology and high-energy physics".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://11.proto.weinberg.northwestern.edu/people/personalpages/hschellman.html|title=Physics & Astronomy -- Heidi Schellman|website=11.proto.weinberg.northwestern.edu|access-date=2016-07-27}}</ref> She has collaborated on D-Zero and Tevatron experiments at Fermilab, researching the mass of top quarks and interactions of protons and anti-protons, and has extensively studied quantum chromodynamics perturbation theory.<ref name=":4" />
Schellman works as a developer for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Heidi Schellman {{!}} Faces of DUNE |url=https://www.dunescience.org/facesofdune/heidi-schellman/ |access-date=2026-03-16 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=DOE Explains...Neutrinos |url=https://www.energy.gov/science/doe-explainsneutrinos |access-date=2026-03-16 |website=Energy.gov |language=en}}</ref>
Schellman also teaches physics at the university of Oregon.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Heidi Schellman, Physics |url=https://sites.science.oregonstate.edu/~schellmh/ |access-date=2026-03-16 |website=sites.science.oregonstate.edu}}</ref>
== Honors == Schellman was an A.P. Sloan Research Fellow and a Department of Energy Outstanding Junior Investigator. She was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1999, cited for "her leadership in QCD physics and as spokesperson of E-665, the Tevatron muon scattering experiment".<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=S&year=2000&unit_id=&institution=|title=APS Fellow Archive|website=www.aps.org|access-date=2016-07-24}}</ref> She was awarded the 2015 Mentoring Award by the American Physical Society’s Division of Particles and Fields.<ref name=":3" /> She was elected a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences in 2025.<ref>{{Cite web |title=National Academy of Sciences Elects Members and International Members - NAS |url=https://www.nasonline.org/news/2025-nas-election/ |access-date=2025-04-30 |website=nasonline.org |language=en-US}}</ref>
== Athletic Accomplishments == Schellman won the Bay-to-Breakers 10K in 1983 in the Centipede Category as part of the Accelepede.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.slac.stanford.edu/vault/pubvault/bln19801989/bln1983jun.pdf|title=SLAC Beam Line|access-date=2023-05-02}}</ref> She won the 1976 team Stanford Intramurals for the champion Junipero Ringers Association.<ref>{{Cite web| url=https://archives.stanforddaily.com/1976/05/28?page=9§ion=MODSMD_ARTICLE43#article|title=Stanford Daily Archives|access-date=2023-05-02}}</ref>
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== External links == * [https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101868276 Physicists hunt for hidden particles: NPR], October 13, 2009. (audio, 12:28 minutes) * Heidi Schellman, [http://helix.northwestern.edu/article/physicists-mind From a Physicist's Mind] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160902083942/https://helix.northwestern.edu/article/physicists-mind |date=September 2, 2016 }}, ''Helix'', Northwestern University, November 30, 2008.
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