Peter Wittich

 

Peter Wittich is a professor of physics at Cornell University. He received his bachelor of science from Yale University in 1993 and his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 200. He has worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Penn and an assistant professor of physics at Cornell and now he works as a professor, which he has been doing since 2017. In 2015 he received the Fundamental Physics Breakthrough Prize for his work. He now focuses mainly on experimental elementary particle physics.

His research surrounding experimental elementary particle physics focuses mainly on understanding the most basic building blocks of matter. Right now, he is trying to understand the relations between the symmetries that govern our current best theory. The main questions that are trying to be answered are what is the origin of mass? Does the Higgs Boson explain it? Why is there a discrepancy between the number of matter and antimatter particles in the universe? What is the reason for the masses of the experimentally observed particles?

Source: https://physics.cornell.edu/peter-wittich