Oliver Keith Baker

Biography

Oliver Keith Baker (born July 18, 1959) is an American experimental particle physicist and astrophysicist, the D. Allan Bromley Professor of Physics at Yale University. He is best known for his contributions to the discovery of the Higgs boson as a member of the ATLAS Collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider, his work on dark matter and dark sector physics, and pioneering research connecting quantum information science to high-energy particle physics. In 2002, he won the Edward Alexander Bouchet Award of the American Physical Society: "For his contribution to nuclear and particle physics; for building the infrastructure to do these measurements; and for being active in outreach activities, both locally and nationally." In 2006, he became the first tenured African American faculty member in the Yale physics department.

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