Estia Joseph Eichten, is an American theoretical physicist, of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
Education
He received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1972 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a student of Roman Jackiw"s, and was Associate Professor of Physics at Harvard before joining the Fermilab Theoretical Physics Department in 1982.
Career
In 1984 Eichten coauthored "Supercollider Physics" (with Kenneth Lane, Ian Hinchliffe and Chris Quigg), which has strongly influenced the quest for future discoveries at hadron colliders, such as the Fermilab Tevatron, the SSC, and the LHC at European Organization of Nuclear Research. He has made many other significant contributions, including the study of the spectroscopy of heavy-light mesons (for which he was an originator of the idea of heavy quark symmetry), quarkonium, and "technicolor" theories of dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking.
Membership
American Physical Society.