Chris Quigg

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Chris Quigg (born December 15, 1944) is a theoretical physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab). He graduated from Yale University in 1966 and received his Ph.D. in 1970 under the tutelage of J. D. Jackson at the University of California, Berkeley. He has been an Associate Professor at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, State University of New York, Stony Brook, and Head of the Theoretical Physics Department at Fermilab from 1977 to 1987.

Quigg's contributions range over many topics in particle physics. With Benjamin Lee and H. B. Thacker in 1977 he identified the uppermost theoretical mass scale for the Higgs boson. In 1984 he coauthored "Supercollider Physics" (with Estia Eichten, Kenneth Lane, and Ian Hinchliffe) which has strongly influenced the quest for future discoveries at hadron colliders, such as the Fermilab Tevatron, the SSC, and the LHC at CERN. He has made many other significant contributions to the study of the spectroscopy of heavy-light mesons, signatures for the production of heavy quarks and quarkonium, and has contributed to the study of ultrahigh-energy neutrino interactions. Quigg is a well-known international lecturer and public speaker.

Quigg was a recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship, 1974–1978, and was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1983.