Education
Soper received his bachelor"s degree in 1965 from Amherst College and his Doctor of Philosophy in 1971 under James Bjorken from Stanford University, where he worked with John Kogut.
physicist university professor
Soper received his bachelor"s degree in 1965 from Amherst College and his Doctor of Philosophy in 1971 under James Bjorken from Stanford University, where he worked with John Kogut.
Soper was from 1971 to 1973 an instructor and from 1973 to 1977 an assistant professor at Princeton University. He was appointed in 1977-1980 an assistant professor, in 1980-1983 an associate professor, and from 1983 to the present a professor at the University of Oregon, where from 2004 to 2007 he was chair of the physics department. His doctoral dissertation on Null Plane Field Theory dealt with the theory of high energy scattering processes in the parton model.
With George Sterman and John C. Collins, he proved a factorization theorem in perturbative quantum chromodynamics (QCD).
He was on the editorial board of Physical Review Letters and Physical Review Doctorate.
Soper is a member of the "Coordinated Theoretical-Experimental Project on QCD“ (CTEQ), whose co-spokesperson he was from 2001 to 2004.