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Wick Haxton received a B.A. from UC Santa Cruz in 1971 and a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1976. He spent his early research career at the Los Alamos Theory Division as a J. Robert Oppenheimer Fellow. In 1984, he moved to the University of Washington as a Professor for 15 years, where he also served as Director of the Department of Energy’s Institute for Nuclear Theory. In 2009, he joined UC Berkeley as a Professor of Physics and as a Senior Faculty Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. His research interests include neutrino physics, nuclear astrophysics, tests of fundamental symmetries, and many-body theory. Haxton is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Washington State Academy of Sciences, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, as well as the American Physical Society. He received the Hans Bethe Prize from the American Physical Society in 2004 and has held visiting fellowships from the Guggenheim, Miller, and Alexander von Humboldt Foundations.
University of California, Berkeley • Berkeley, CA
Professor of Physics and Senior Faculty Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.
Department of Energy’s Institute for Nuclear Theory • Seattle, WA
Directed the Department of Energy's Institute for Nuclear Theory for 15 years.
Los Alamos Theory Division • Los Alamos, NM
Early research career as a J. Robert Oppenheimer Fellow.
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