Gordon Kane

Kane has been the Victor Weisskopf Collegiate Professor of Physics (2002–2011) at the University of Michigan and the the Director (2005–2011) of the Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics (MCTP), a leading center dedicated to the advancement of theoretical physics. He is now Victor Weisskopf Distinguished Professor at the University of Michigan and MCTP Director Emeritus.

Professor Kane is an internationally recognized scientific leader in theoretical and phenomenological particle physics, and theories for physics beyond the Standard Model and in recent years has been a leader in string phenomenology. Kane has been with the University of Michigan since (1965).

Kane has published over 200 research articles and has written or co-authored or edited at least 10 physics books, and has 3 influential Scientific American particle physics articles. A chapter from one book was reprinted in an anthology, with other chapters by Galileo, Newton, Einstein, Hawking, Maxwell, Heisenberg, Weinberg. Two of his more recent books includes “Perspectives on Supersymmetry”, and “Perspectives on LHC Physics”, both of which provide extensive reviews of the field.

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