David B. Kaplan

David B. Kaplan (born 1958) is the director of the Institute for Nuclear Theory (INT) at the University of Washington. He earned his B.S. in 1980 from Stanford University, Ph.D. in 1985 from Harvard University as a student of Howard Georgi, was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows 1985-1988, a professor of physics at the University of California, San Diego 1988-1993, and has been a Senior Fellow at the INT since 1994. He is known for the theory of composite Higgs Bosons, for work on the role of the strange quark in matter and the phenomenon of kaon condensation, for development of the theory of electroweak baryogenesis and other aspects of particle astrophysics, for contributions to effective field theory for nuclear physics, for the first formulation of lattice gauge theory with chiral fermions, and for the construction of lattice field theories with exact supersymmetry.