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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.
James Carazzone: 1104 citations, Exxon
Peter Cho: 1028 citations, Lincoln Laboratory
Michael Dugan: 801 citations, Office of Information Technology, Boston University
Toby Falk: 932 citations,
Goldman Sachs
Mitch Golden: 901 citations,
Agency.com
Igor Halperin: 792 citations,
Bloomberg L.P.
Patrick Huet: 1129 citations,
KLA-Tencor
Brian Hill: 1052 citations,
NeXT/Apple
David C. Lewellen: 1571 citations, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, West Virginia University
Jorge Lopez: 3397 citations,
Shell E&P Technology Company
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 Associate 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
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.
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
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