David Shoemaker (physicist)

American gravitational-wave scientist
David Shoemaker

David H. Shoemaker is an American physicist who is a Senior Research Scientist at The Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1]

Shoemaker graduated from MIT with a Master of Science degree in 1980 having been admitted without an undergraduate degree after working as a Laboratory Instructor in MIT's Physics Department.[2][3] He received his PhD from Paris-Sud University in 1987. He joined the French National Centre for Scientific Research that year, leaving to work as a research scientist at the Kavli Institute in 1989.[2]

Shoemaker was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2001.[2][4] He acted as spokesperson for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration between 2017 and 2019.[4][5]

References

  1. ^ "David Shoemaker". Retrieved 13 July 2025.
  2. ^ a b c "DAVID SHOEMAKER CV" (PDF). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 21 March 2024. Retrieved 15 July 2025.
  3. ^ "Meet the college dropout who invented the gravitational wave detector". www.science.org. Retrieved 2025-09-15.
  4. ^ a b Keller, Julia C. (29 March 2017). "David Shoemaker named spokesperson for LIGO Scientific Collaboration". MIT News. Retrieved 15 July 2025.
  5. ^ "LSC Elects Patrick Brady as Spokesperson".
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