Peter H. Fisher
Peter H. Fisher is an American experimental particle physicist, as well as the Thomas A. Frank Professor of Physics and the former head of the Department of Physics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
Early life and education
Peter Fisher was born in 1959 in San Francisco, California.He earned a B.S. in engineering physics at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1983, and a Ph.D. in nuclear physics at the California Institute of Technology in 1988. His dissertation, A search for double beta decay in 76Ge, was supervised by Felix H. Boehm.
Career
From 1989 to 1994, Fisher was on the faculty of Johns Hopkins University. He joined the M.I.T. faculty in 1989, and became a full professor in 2001.Fisher's research has included twelve years at CERN working on the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer for the International Space Station. His research interests also include the detection of dark matter, development of new particle detectors, compact energy supplies, and wireless energy transmission. He released his first book in 2022, "What is Dark Matter?, synthesizing his own and peers research into the topic.
He was chair of the M.I.T. Department of Physics from 2014 to 2022. He became the first Head of the M.I.T Office of Research Computing and Data in 2022. He is a member of JASON (advisory group).