Mark B. Wise

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Mark Wise
Born
CitizenshipUnited States, Canada
Alma mater University of Toronto (BS, MS)
Stanford (PhD)
Known for Heavy quark effective theory
Awards American Academy of Arts and Sciences
National Academy of Sciences
Sakurai Prize
Scientific career
Fields Particle physics
Theoretical physics
Institutions Harvard Junior Fellow
California Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisor Fred Gilman
Notable students Mark Adler
Walter Goldberger
Alejandro Jenkins
Martin J. Savage
Iain Stewart (physicist)
Sandip Trivedi

Mark Brian Wise (born November 9, 1953, in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian-American theoretical physicist. He has conducted research in elementary particle physics and cosmology. [1] He is best known for his role in the development of heavy quark effective theory (HQET), a mathematical formalism that has allowed physicists to make predictions about otherwise intractable problems in the theory of the strong nuclear interactions. He has also published work on mathematical models for finance and risk assessment.

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Biography

Wise was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He was educated at the University of Toronto (B.S., 1976; M.S., 1977) and Stanford University (Ph.D., 1980). While still a student, he co-authored a book on mathematical methods in physics with Toronto professor Lynn Trainor. With Fred Gilman, his graduate advisor at Stanford, Wise wrote several highly influential papers on experimental predictions of the quark model. Wise was a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows from 1980 to 1983. He has been at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) since then. [2]

Wise is currently the John A. McCone Professor of High Energy Physics at Caltech, a fellow of the American Physical Society (2003), [3] and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the National Academy of Sciences. From 1984 to 1987 he was a fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. [4] He shared the 2001 Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics with Nathan Isgur and Mikhail Voloshin, "for the construction of the heavy quark mass expansion and the discovery of the heavy quark symmetry in quantum chromodynamics, which led to a quantitative theory of the decays of c and b flavored hadrons." [5]

He has supervised over three dozen graduate students. [6]

Wise was the science consultant for Iron Man 2 . [7]

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References

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  2. "Mark B. Wise | The Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy". pma.caltech.edu. Retrieved March 7, 2021.
  3. "APS Fellow Archive". APS. Retrieved September 17, 2020.
  4. "Wise, Mark B., 1953–". history.aip.org. Retrieved March 7, 2021.
  5. "Caltech Physicist Awarded Sakurai Prize". California Institute of Technology. April 2, 2001. Retrieved March 7, 2021.
  6. "Physics Tree – Mark B. Wise". academictree.org. Retrieved March 7, 2021.
  7. Lorditch, Emilie. "Inside Science Of Iron Man 2", Inside Science, American Institute of Physics, May 5, 2010. Retrieved April 10, 2020.