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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.
Mark Wise
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| Born | |
| Citizenship | United 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 |
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]