David Shoemaker (physicist)

David Shoemaker

David H. Shoemaker is an American physicist who is a Senior Research Scientist at The Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ^[1]

Shoemaker graduated from MIT with a Master of Science degree in 1980 having been admitted without an undergraduate degree after working as a Laboratory Instructor in MIT's Physics Department. ^{[2] [3]} He received his PhD from Paris-Sud University in 1987. He joined the French National Centre for Scientific Research that year, leaving to work as a research scientist at the Kavli Institute in 1989. ^[2]

Shoemaker was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2001. ^{[2] [4]} He acted as spokesperson for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration between 2017 and 2019. ^{[4] [5]}

References

1. "David Shoemaker" . Retrieved 13 July 2025.
2. "DAVID SHOEMAKER CV" (PDF). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 21 March 2024. Retrieved 15 July 2025.
3. "Meet the college dropout who invented the gravitational wave detector". www.science.org. Retrieved 2025-09-15.
4. Keller, Julia C. (29 March 2017). "David Shoemaker named spokesperson for LIGO Scientific Collaboration". MIT News. Retrieved 15 July 2025.
5. "LSC Elects Patrick Brady as Spokesperson".