Lawrence John Hall
{{Short description|Theoretical particle physicist}}
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Lawrence John Hall is a theoretical particle physicist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley and the Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics.
Biography
Hall received his bachelor's degree from Oxford in 1977 and his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1981 with Howard Georgi.{{Cite web|last=Hall|first=Lawrence|title=Mathematics Genealogy Project - Lawrence John Hall|url=https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=105731|website=Mathematics Genealogy Project}} He was a Miller Fellow at Berkeley and an assistant professor at Harvard where he was a Sloan Foundation Fellow,{{Cite web|title=Past Fellows {{!}} Alfred P. Sloan Foundation|url=https://sloan.org/past-fellows|access-date=2021-03-07|website=sloan.org|language=en}}{{Cite news|date=March 10, 1985|title=90 Scientists and Economists Win Sloan Research Awards|work=New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/03/10/nyregion/90-scientists-and-economists-win-sloan-research-awards.html}} before becoming professor at Berkeley in 1983,{{Cite web|title=INSPIRE|url=https://inspirehep.net/authors/1006934|access-date=2021-03-07|website=inspirehep.net}} where he won a Presidential Young Investigator Award.{{Cite journal|date=2008-01-11|title=NSF Honors Rabi and Witten, Names Young Investigators|url=https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.2820197|journal=Physics Today|language=en|volume=40|issue=9|pages=95–96|doi=10.1063/1.2820197|issn=0031-9228|url-access=subscription}}
Hall is notable for his theoretical contributions to a wide span of research topics such as physics beyond the Standard Model, including supersymmetry and dark matter, in addition to his work on the weak force, cosmology, and grand unified theories. He was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1993 "for numerous original contributions to the phenomenology of weak interaction, supersymmetry and supergravity, and the physics of the early universe."{{Cite web|title=APS Fellow Archive|url=http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm|access-date=2021-03-07|website=www.aps.org|language=en}}
His doctoral students include Nima Arkani-Hamed, Neal Weiner, and Hsin-Chia Cheng.{{Cite web|title=Academic Tree - Lawrence Hall|url=https://academictree.org/physics/peopleinfo.php?pid=169936}}
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