Peter H. Fisher

Peter Fisher was born in 1959 in San Francisco, California.[1]

He earned a B.S. in engineering physics at the University of California, Berlkeley, in 1983, and a Ph.D. in nuclear physics at the California Institute of Technology in 1988.[2] His dissertation, A search for double beta decay in ⁷⁶Ge, was supervised by Felix H. Boehm.[3]

From 1989-1994, Fisher was on the faculty of Johns Hopkins University.[4] He joined the M.I.T. faculty in 1989, and became a full professor in 2009.[5]

Fisher's research has included twelve years at CERN working on the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer for the International Space Station. His research interests also include the detection of dark matter,[6] development of new particle detectors, compact energy supplies, and wireless energy transmission.[7]

He became chair of the M.I.T. Department of Physics in 2014.[8]

Fisher became a Fellow[9] of the American Physical Society,[10] nominated by the Division of Particles and Fields in 2006,[11] and cited for "Intiating Tau Polarization Asymmetry Measurements and W-Boson self couplings, leading to a top mass prediction (found later at FNAL). First proof of single W-production in e+ e- annihilation. Determination of sin20w with proposal to expand to highest accuracy of 10-5 at LHC."[10]

• Peter H. Fisher, Professor of Physics