Richard Keith Ellis
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Richard Keith Ellis is a British
theoretical physicist, at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and a leading authority on perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics
.
He graduated from Oxford University (MA 1971, D. Phil 1974). He has held positions at Imperial College, MIT, Caltech, CERN
and the University of Rome.
He came to Fermilab in 1984. He was Head of the Theoretical Physics Department at Fermilab
from 1993 to 2004. Ellis' work is of importance to the study of elementary particles at colliders, such as the Fermilab Tevatron, and the CERN Large Hadron Collider
.
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He is the coauthor with W. J. Stirling and B. R. Webber of a book on QCD and collider physics http://www.hep.phy.cam.ac.uk/theory/webber/QCDbook.html published by
Cambridge University Press in 1996.
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theoretical physicist, at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and a leading authority on perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics
Quantum chromodynamics
In theoretical physics, quantum chromodynamics is a theory of the strong interaction , a fundamental force describing the interactions of the quarks and gluons making up hadrons . It is the study of the SU Yang–Mills theory of color-charged fermions...
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He graduated from Oxford University (MA 1971, D. Phil 1974). He has held positions at Imperial College, MIT, Caltech, CERN
CERN
The European Organization for Nuclear Research , known as CERN , is an international organization whose purpose is to operate the world's largest particle physics laboratory, which is situated in the northwest suburbs of Geneva on the Franco–Swiss border...
and the University of Rome.
He came to Fermilab in 1984. He was Head of the Theoretical Physics Department at Fermilab
Fermilab
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory , located just outside Batavia, Illinois, near Chicago, is a US Department of Energy national laboratory specializing in high-energy particle physics...
from 1993 to 2004. Ellis' work is of importance to the study of elementary particles at colliders, such as the Fermilab Tevatron, and the CERN Large Hadron Collider
Large Hadron Collider
The Large Hadron Collider is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator. It is expected to address some of the most fundamental questions of physics, advancing the understanding of the deepest laws of nature....
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Honours and Awards
Ellis was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1988 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 2009. He is co-recipient of the 2009 J. J. Sakurai prize for Theoretical Particle PhysicsSakurai Prize
The J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics, is presented by the American Physical Society at its annual "April Meeting", and honors outstanding achievement in particle physics theory...
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Selected publications
Ellis' publications are available on the SPIRES HEP Literature Databasehttp://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/hep/.He is the coauthor with W. J. Stirling and B. R. Webber of a book on QCD and collider physics http://www.hep.phy.cam.ac.uk/theory/webber/QCDbook.html published by
Cambridge University Press in 1996.
External links
- Personal site at FermilabFermilabFermi National Accelerator Laboratory , located just outside Batavia, Illinois, near Chicago, is a US Department of Energy national laboratory specializing in high-energy particle physics...