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Oliver Keith Baker
Born (1959-07-18) 18 July 1959 (age 64)
ATLAS Collaboration
Doctoral advisorArthur B. C. Walker Jr.

Oliver Keith Baker is an

Edward Alexander Bouchet Award of the American Physical Society: "For his contribution to nuclear and particle physics; for building the infrastructure to do these measurements; and for being active in outreach activities, both locally and nationally."[1]

Early life and education

Oliver Keith Baker was born in

McGehee, Arkansas in 1959 to parents Oliver and Yvonne Baker, and grew up in Memphis, Tennessee.[2]

Keith Baker received his B.S. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1981. Baker completed both his M.S. in physics and mathematics in 1984 and his Ph.D. in physics in 1987 from Stanford working on experimental nuclear physics.[1]

Career

Baker completed a post-doc at Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1986 to 1988 conducting research on muon catalyzed fusion.[2] After his post-doc, Baker joined Hampton University in 1989[3] as an assistant professor in the physics department with a joint appointment as a staff scientist at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility.[4] In 2002, Baker received an Endowed University Professorship from Hampton University for his contributions to experimental nuclear and particle physics research as well as his work in outreach activities.[3][1]

In 2006, Baker began professorship at

cosmic rays from BL Lacertae objects.[7]

In 2010, Baker became director of Yale's A. W. Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory,

fundamental physics. In February 2021 he was appointed to Yale's D. Allan Bromley Professorship of Physics.[9]

Awards and honors

References

  1. ^ a b c "2002 Edward A. Bouchet Award Recipient". American Physical Society. Retrieved October 20, 2020.
  2. ^ a b c "Physicist credits his Tillar roots". Arkansas Democrat Gazette. November 7, 2016. Retrieved October 20, 2020.
  3. ^ a b "Oliver Keith Baker - Physicist of the African Diaspora". www.math.buffalo.edu. Retrieved 2021-03-14.
  4. ^ a b c d e "Oliver Baker". The History Makers. March 10, 2013. Retrieved October 20, 2020.
  5. ^ "Physics Expands by Five Profs". Yale Daily News. September 6, 2006. Retrieved October 20, 2020.
  6. ^ The ATLAS Collaboration, "Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC", Phys. Lett. B 716:1-29 (2012).
  7. ^ O. K. Baker and R. J. Anantua, "TeV gamma rays from distant BL Lacs and photon-paraphoton kinetic mixing" Phys. Lett. B 290:25-28 (2010)
  8. ^ "Wright Laboratory". Yale. 2020. Retrieved October 20, 2020.
  9. ^ "Keith Baker appointed the D. Allan Bromley Professor of Physics". Physics Department, Yale University. April 13, 2021.
  10. ^ "Edward A. Bouchet Award". American Physical Society. 2002. Retrieved 20 October 2020.

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