C. R. Hagen

Carl Richard Hagen ( Richard Hagen, born February 2, 1937 in Chicago) is an American theoretical physicist.

Hagen is a professor of particle physics at the University of Rochester. He is most known for his contributions to the standard model and symmetry breaking and the Mitentdeckung of the Higgs mechanism and Higgs boson with Gerald Guralnik and Tom Kibble, Peter Higgs and independently of François Englert, Robert Brout. Hagen knew Guralnik even from his student days at MIT. Your final shape was given the job than both 1964 at Kibble at Imperial College in London were. As part of its 50th anniversary, the Physical Review Letters recognized this discovery as one of the landmark publications in their history.

In 2010, Hagen received the Sakurai Prize of the American Physical Society for Theoretical Particle Physics for the elucidation of the properties of spontaneous symmetry breaking in four-dimensional relativistic gauge theory and the mechanism for the consistent generation of vector boson masses.

Professor Hagen research interests are in the field of theoretical high-energy physics, especially in quantum field theory. This includes the formulation and quantization of relativistic and non relativistic field theories with higher spin. In recent years he has dealt with such issues as exactly solvable two-dimensional theories, Chern - Simons field theory, the Aharonov -Bohm effect and the Casimir effect.

Hagen received his B. S. and M. S. in physics in 1958 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received his doctorate in 1962 for her work on quantum electrodynamics at Ken Johnson. Since 1963 he has been a professor of physics at the University of Rochester, where he was an assistant professor in 1965, associate professor in 1968 and professor in 1974. Hagen twice won the award for excellence in teaching at the Institute of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Rochester (1996 and 1999). He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS ) and was honored by her in 2008 as Outstanding Referee.