Faculty

PETER FISHER
Professor and Division Head, Particle and Nuclear Experimental Physics

PETER FISHER, Professor of Physics; Division Head, Particle and Nuclear Experimental Physics

Name: Peter Fisher

Title(s): Professor of Physics
Division Head, Particle and Nuclear Experimental Physics

Email: fisherp@mit.edu

Phone: (617) 253-8561

Assistant: Jeanne Glasheen (617) 253-2361

Address:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue, Bldg. 26-505
Cambridge, MA 02139

Address: 26-541

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Area of Physics:

Experimental Nuclear and Particle Physics

Education:

  • B.Sc. 1983, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-BERKELEY
  • Ph.D. 1988, CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Selected Awards and Honors:

  • American Physical Society Fellow

Research Interests

Professor Peter Fisher's main activities are the experimental detection of dark matter using a new kind of detector with directional sensitivity and understanding the weak interactions using tau decays detector with the BaBar detector. His other projects include neutrino physics,  wireless power transfer, pedagogical work on electromagnetic radiation and development of new kinds of particle detectors.

Biographical Sketch

Peter Fisher is a professor in the Physics Department and head of the Particle and Nuclear Experimental Physics Division at MIT. He also holds appointments in the university's Laboratory for Nuclear Science and the Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research. Fisher is primarily involved in CERN's Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) experiment, which is designed to make high-precision measurements of cosmic rays. His primary physics interests are dark matter and high-energy interactions, and he is also interested in the development of new particle detectors. Fisher received a B.S. in engineering physics from the University of California at Berkeley, and in 1988 obtained his Ph.D. in physics from the California Institute of Technology. He was also on the faculty of Johns Hopkins University from 1989 to 1994. Since then, he has published numerous papers on neutrinos and the search for what cosmic rays are made of.

Selected Publications

Last updated: 04.01.2013