Stephen Parke

Stephen Parke is a New Zealand physicist. He is a distinguished scientist and former head of the Theoretical Physics Department at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Batavia, Illinois).

Stephen Parke
Born
NationalityNew Zealand
United Kingdom
United States
Alma materEdmund Campion College, Gisborne
St Peter's College, Auckland
University of Auckland
Harvard University
Known forParke–Taylor amplitudes, analytic understanding of MSW effect and top quark spin correlations
Scientific career
FieldsTheoretical physics
InstitutionsStanford Linear Accelerator Center
Fermilab
Doctoral advisorSidney Coleman

Born in Gisborne, New Zealand, Parke attended Edmund Campion College, Gisborne and St Peter's College, Auckland and the University of Auckland in New Zealand. He was a graduate student of Sidney Coleman at Harvard University, obtaining a PhD in theoretical particle physics in 1980. He held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (19801983) before moving to the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.

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