Harvey Newman

Harvey Newman

Professor of Physics; Chair, GNA-G DIS Working Group

Harvey Newman (Sc. D, MIT 1974), has been a Caltech faculty member in physics since 1982. He has chaired the Executive Committee of the US LHC Users Association that he founded in 2013, which is hosted by the Universities Research Association based in Washington DC. In 1973-4 he co-led the team at the Cambridge Electron Accelerator that discovered the large hadron cross section in electron-positron collisions due to color and the fourth quark flavor charm. He co-led the MARK J Collaboration at the DESY laboratory in Hamburg that discovered the gluon, the carrier of the strong force in 1979. Since 1994 he has been a member of the CMS Collaboration that discovered the Higgs boson in 2012, while co-leading the Caltech CMS high energy physics group. He also led the MINOS and NOvA teams at Caltech.

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