Raymond Brock

Raymond L. "Chip" Brock (born August 2, 1950) is an American particle physicist and University Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University. Additionally, he is an adjunct professor at Arizona State University. He worked on the DØ experiment at Fermilab and the ATLAS experiment at CERN. He served as chair of the Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society in 2010 and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Early life and education Brock was born on August 2, 1950, in Oak Park, Illinois. He earned a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from Iowa State University in 1972. After working as a sales engineer for Driv-Lok Inc., he returned to academia and received a Master of Science in physics and the philosophy of science from Northern Illinois University in 1975.

Career Following his doctoral work, Brock was a research associate at Fermilab from 1980 to 1982. In 2011, he was named a University Distinguished Professor. He subsequently became a member of the DØ collaboration, a proton–antiproton colliding beam experiment at Fermilab. Additionally, he also joined the ATLAS collaboration at CERN, a proton–proton collider experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. The task force released their final report in December 1998, recommending no overall statement on tenure, but that the APS should encourage more transparency in tenure requirements. He was later made chair of the APS' Division of Particles and Fields in 2010 and was chair of the U.S. ATLAS Institutional Board from 2014 to 2015. From 2010 to 2013, he was the U.S. at-large representative to the International Committee on Future Accelerators. He co-led the Energy Frontier working group for the 2013 Snowmass study on the future of U.S. particle physics.

Awards and honors Brock was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1999 "for many contributions to experimental high energy physics and the D0 detector which have helped to establish the future direction of physics at Fermilab." At Michigan State University, he received the Teacher-Scholar Award in 1985 and the Distinguished Faculty Award in 2004. . In 2011, he was named a University Distinguished Professor