| Sally Dawson | |
|---|---|
 Sally Dawson at Heidelberg University | |
| Alma mater | Duke University Harvard University |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Fermilab Brookhaven National Laboratory |
Sally Dawson is an American physicist who deals with theoretical elementary particle physics.
Education and career
Dawson studied mathematics and physics at Duke University with a bachelor's degree in 1977 and at Harvard University with a master's degree in 1978 and a doctorate in 1981 with thesis advisor Howard Georgi and thesis Radiative Corrections to sinθW. She was a postdoc at Fermilab (1983–1986) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (1981–1983). From 1986 she was at Brookhaven National Laboratory, where she became a senior scientist in 1994 and a group leader in 1998. From 2001 to the present, she is an adjunct professor at the C. N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook University. In 2007–2008 she was on sabbatical leave at SLAC.
Her research deals with the physics of the Higgs boson and possible extensions of the Standard model related to the Higgs boson. She co-authored, with three collaborators, an influential handbook, first published in 1990.
In 2004 Dawson was the chair of the Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society. She was also the chair in 2006 of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Physics Division Program Review and in 2010 of the Fermilab Program Advisory Board.
In 2017 she, together with three collaborators, received the Sakurai Prize for, according to the laudation, "instrumental contributions to the theory of the properties, reactions, and signatures of the Higgs boson".
Honors and awards
- 1995 — Town of Brookhaven, Woman of the Year in Science
- 1995 — elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS)
- 1998 — APS Centennial Speaker
- 2006 — elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 2015 — Humboldt Fellowship
- 2017 — Sakurai Prize of the APS
Selected publications
- with John F. Gunion, Howard Haber, and Gordon L. Kane: The Higgs Hunter's Guide, Addison Wesley 1990, Westview Press 2000, CRC Press 2018
- as editor with Rabindra Nath Mohapatra: Colliders and neutrinos: the window into physics beyond the standard model. World Scientific. 2008. ISBN 9789812819253.
References
- biographical information from American Men and Women of Science, Thomson Gale 2004
- ^ "C.V. (long version) for Sally Dawson" (PDF). Brookhaven National Laboratory.
- "Sally Dawson, Senior Scientist". Brookhaven National Laboratory, High Energy Theory Group.
- "Publication list for Sally Dawson" (PDF). Brookhaven National Laboratory.
- "2017 J. J. Sakurai Prize, Sally Dawson". APS Physics.
External links
- Homepage
- lectures at Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Summer 2016
- "MITP Theory Summer School: New Physics on Trial at LHC Run II, 25 July – 05 August 2016, Mainz Germany".
- "Sally Dawson (BNL): Higgs Physics - Lecture 1". YouTube. 13 September 2016.
- "Sally Dawson (BNL): Higgs Physics - Lecture 2". YouTube. 13 September 2016.
- "Sally Dawson (BNL): Higgs Physics - Lecture 3". YouTube. 13 September 2016.
- "Sally Dawson (BNL): Higgs Physics - Lecture 4". YouTube. 13 September 2016.
- American particle physicists
- American theoretical physicists
- 1955 births
- Living people
- American women physicists
- Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Fellows of the American Physical Society
- J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics recipients
- Duke University alumni
- Harvard University alumni
- Brookhaven National Laboratory staff
- Stony Brook University faculty
- 20th-century American physicists
- 21st-century American physicists
- 21st-century American scientists
- 21st-century American women scientists
- 20th-century American women scientists
- Scientists from Cleveland
- American women academics