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Where Are They Now?
One often hears the phrase “publish or perish” in the halls of academe, however in today's theoretical particle physics job market, being published is not enough. Not even being published, read, and cited.
Asad Naqvi: 1,109 citations,
Goldman Sachs]
* **[[http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/hep/wwwcitesummary?rawcmd=FIND+A+PIERCE,+D+AND+NOT+MCWHORLER+AND+NOT+BARDAYAN+AND+NOT+GARWIN+AND+NOT+CELOTTA+AND+NOT+SEALS|
Damien Pierce:
1062 citations, Music Production, New York
* Nir
Polonsky:
1906 citations, McKinsey & Company
* Phillipe Pouliot:
1283 citations, Morgan Stanley
*
Joachim Rahmfeld:
795 citations, Sun Microsystems
* Kurt
Riesselmann:
513 citations, Editor, Public Affairs at Fermilab
*
Ryan Rohm:
4130 citations, Adjunct Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
* Lawrence
Romans:
1596 citations, Jet Propulsion Lab
* Myckola
Schwetz:
535 citations, Safeweb, Emeryville CA
* Martin
Sohnius:
1682 citations, Novell, Cambridge, UK
* Robin
Stuart:
1549 citations, Merrill Lynch
* Avto Tkabladze:
930 citations, Schlumberger
Of course some people do manage to get faculty jobs and then decide that
academia is not all it's cracked up to be:
* Michael
Berhsadsky:
2368 citations, did not go to Toronto in order to work for Renaissance Technologies.
* Zurab Kakushadze:
2398 citations, left Stony Brook for the Royal
Bank of Canada, New York City.
*
Arthur Lue:
536 citations, left U. Texas, San Antonio for Lincoln Laboratory
* Michael
Mattis:
1422 citations, left Los Alamos for his antique photography business.
* Uri
Sarid:** 629 citations, left Notre Dame to form
digiGroups.
Note: number of citations is obtained from
SPIRES