Glennys Farrar

Glennys Farrar
Farrar in 2023
Born1946 (age 77–78)
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
Princeton University
AwardsDistinguished Visiting Research Chair for the Perimeter Institute
Scientific career
FieldsTheoretical physics
InstitutionsCalifornia Institute of Technology
Rutgers University
New York University
ThesisThe weak radiative decay of the positive sigma-hyperon and the lambda-hyperon (1971)
Doctoral advisorSam Treiman
Doctoral studentsGregory Gabadadze

Glennys Reynolds Farrar (born 1946) is an American physicist. She is a professor of physics at New York University who specializes in particle physics, cosmology and the study of dark matter.[1][2] She has made several significant contributions to the fields of hadron and dark matter phenomenology, helping to develop the working "Standard Cosmological Model".[3][4][5] Farrar is a figure in developing many modern particle-search techniques, achieving numerous recognitions including as the Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences and Sloan Fellowship. She holds a faculty position at New York University (NYU), where she has been since 1998.

  1. ^ Glennys Farrar publications indexed by Google Scholar
  2. ^ Cartwright, Jon (2007-05-09). "Hunt for fifth force focuses on Bullet Cluster". Physics World. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
  3. ^ Brodsky, Stanley J.; Farrar, Glennys R. (1973-10-29). "Scaling Laws at Large Transverse Momentum". Physical Review Letters. 31 (18): 1153–1156. Bibcode:1973PhRvL..31.1153B. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.31.1153.
  4. ^ Farrar, Glennys R.; Peebles, P. J. E. (2004-03-20). "Interacting Dark Matter and Dark Energy". The Astrophysical Journal. 604 (1): 1–11. arXiv:astro-ph/0307316. Bibcode:2004ApJ...604....1F. doi:10.1086/381728. ISSN 0004-637X. S2CID 20046388.
  5. ^ "Profile: Glennys Farrar". Telling Stories. Archived from the original on 2022-01-26. Retrieved 2022-04-22.