Marvin L. Goldberger Professor of Physics, Caltech
Harvey Newman (Sc. D, MIT 1974), the Marvin L. Goldberger Professor of Physics at Caltech, has been a faculty member since 1982. In 1973-4, he co-led the team that discovered the fourth quark flavor known as “charm.” He co-led the MARK J Collaboration that discovered the gluon, the carrier of the strong force, in 1979. Since 1994 has been a member of the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN that discovered the Higgs boson at the LHC in 2012 and is now searching for additional Higgs particles, supersymmetry, extra dimensions, and other exotic new particles and forces. Newman has had a leading role in originating, developing, and operating state-of-the-art international networks and collaborative systems serving the high-energy physics community since 1982. He served on the IETF and the Technical Advisory Group that led to the NSFNet in 1985-6. He originated the worldwide LHC Computing Model in 1996. Between 1985 and 2015, he and his team developed and operated US LHCNet, a resilient virtualized transatlantic network serving the high-energy physics community. He has led science and network engineering teams that have developed state-of-the-art long-distance data-intensive application transfers since 2002. Through mid-2020, Newman represented the physics community on the Internet2 Network Policy and Operations Program Advisory Group. In 2019, he joined the Global Network Advancement Group Leadership Team and, in 2020, founded the Data Intensive Sciences Working Group. He and the Caltech HEP and network team are currently developing next-generation Internet architectures and global software-defined networked systems with ESnet, Internet2, CENIC, CERN, UCSD/PRP, Starlight, Fermilab, Yale, Northeastern, AmLight, FIU, LBNL, Maryland, Tennessee Tech, the State University of Rio, the State University of Sao Paulo, and many other science and network research teams, with support from the U.S. DOE and NSF.