Joseph Lykken

Joseph Lykken
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Known forResearch advances relating to wormholes, extra dimensions, supersymmetry, the Higgs boson, and superstrings.
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsFermilab, University of Chicago
ThesisGauge Invariant Formulations of Large N Quantum Chromodynamics (1982)
Doctoral advisorRoman Jackiw

Joseph David Lykken (/ˈlɪkən/ LIK-ən) is an American theoretical physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and, from July 1, 2014 to Sept 6, 2022, he was the Deputy Director of Fermilab.[1] He is currently Director of Fermilab's Quantum Division.[2]

  1. ^ "Fermilab Today".
  2. ^ "Fermilab | About Fermilab".