Background
Georgi, Howard was born on January 6, 1947 in San Bernardino, California, United States.
Georgi, Howard was born on January 6, 1947 in San Bernardino, California, United States.
Bachelor magna cum laude with high honors, Harvard College, 1967; Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1971.
His early work was in Grand Unification and gauge coupling unification within SU(5) and SO(10) groups (see Georgi–Glashow model). Georgi has taught a freshman physics course, "Physics 16" in the fall semester. He was Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows from 1973–76 and a Senior Fellow from 1982-1998.
Georgi proposed an SU(5) GUT model with softly broken supersymmetry with Savas Dimopoulos in 1981. This paper is one of the foundational works for the supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM). After the measurements of the three Standard Model gauge couplings at LEP I in 1991, it was shown that particle content of the MSSM, in contrast to the Standard Model alone, led to precision gauge coupling unification.
Unparticle physics is a theory that there exists matter that cannot be explained in terms of particles, because its components are scale invariant. Howard Georgi proposed this theory in the spring of 2007 in the papers "Unparticle Physics" and "Another Odd Thing About Unparticle Physics". Georgi has published several books, one of which is Lie Algebras in Particle Physics published by World Scientific.
He has also published The Physics of Waves and Weak Interactions and Modern Particle Theory.
(The first complete introduction to waves and wave phenome...)
( Howard Georgi is the co-inventor (with Sheldon Glashow)...)
He has since worked on several different areas of physics including composite Higgs models, heavy quark effective theory, dimensional deconstruction, little Higgs, and unparticle theories.
Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Physical Society (commission on status of women in physics 1994-1997, Executive Committee Forum on Education 1995-1998, Sakurai prize 1995). Member NAS.
Married, two children.