David E. Kaplan (physicist)

For David B. Kaplan (born 1958), also an American particle physicist, see David B. Kaplan.

For other people with the same name, see David Kaplan (disambiguation).

David E. Kaplan
Born	United States
Nationality	American
Alma mater	UC Berkeley University of Washington
Awards	Kavli Frontiers Fellow Alfred P. Sloan Fellow
Scientific career
Fields	Theoretical particle physics
Institutions	Johns Hopkins University
Doctoral advisor	Ann Nelson

David Elazzar Kaplan is a theoretical particle physicist at the Johns Hopkins University.

Biography

Kaplan received his Bachelor of Science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1991, his master's in physics from the University of Washington in 1996 and PhD from the same institute under supervision of Ann Nelson in 1999. After postdoctoral positions at the University of Chicago, Argonne National Lab and in the SLAC Theory Group, he joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins in 2002.

His primary research interest is physics beyond the standard model, with a particular focus on the Higgs mechanism and potentially related physics such as supersymmetry, new forces, extra dimensions, and dark matter. He is also exploring connections between high energy physics and cosmology. He was selected as a Kavli Frontiers Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, and an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow.

In 2011, Kaplan co-hosted season three of National Geographic Channel's Known Universe documentary series along with Sigrid Close, Andy Howell, Michael J. Massimino, and Steve Jacobs. Kaplan also produced (and starred in) the documentary Particle Fever.

Honors and awards

• 2018 Andrew Gemant Award of the American Institute of Physics

References

• Kaplan, David E; Sundrum, Raman (2 Jun 2005). "A Symmetry for the Cosmological Constant". Journal of High Energy Physics. 2006 (7): 042. arXiv:hep-th/0505265. Bibcode:2006JHEP...07..042K. doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2006/07/042. S2CID 12581616.
• Kaplan, David E; Schmaltz, Martin (8 Feb 2003). "The Little Higgs from a Simple Group". Journal of High Energy Physics. 2003 (10): 039. arXiv:hep-ph/0302049. Bibcode:2003JHEP...10..039K. doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2003/10/039. S2CID 16647235.
• Kaplan, David E; Tait, Tim M P (9 Oct 2001). "New Tools for Fermion Masses from Extra Dimensions". JHEP. 0111 (51): 87856. arXiv:hep-ph/0110126. Bibcode:2001STIN...0287856K.
• Elazzar Kaplan, D; Kribs, Graham D; Schmaltz, Martin (10 Nov 1999). "Supersymmetry Breaking through Transparent Extra Dimensions". Physical Review D. 62 (3): 035010. arXiv:hep-ph/9911293. Bibcode:2000PhRvD..62c5010K. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.62.035010. S2CID 18231539.

External links

• Faculty directory page at the Johns Hopkins University
• David Kaplan at IMDb
• Oral History Interview of David E. Kaplan by David Zierler on July 13, 2020, Niels Bohr Library & Archives, American Institute of Physics