Howard Georgi, born in 1947 in San Bernardino, California, is Harvard College Professor and Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics at Harvard University, where he is also Director of Undergraduate Studies in Physics and Master of Leverett House. He graduated from Harvard in 1967 and obtained his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1971. He was Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows from 1973-1976. In 1995 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and received the Sakurai Prize. He has advised a number of notable students, including John Hagelin, Lawrence Hall, Andy Cohen, Ann Nelson, David B. Kaplan and Lisa Randall.
He is best known for early work in Grand Unification and gauge coupling unification within SU(5) and SO(10) groups (see Georgi-Glashow model). He later proposed the supersymmetric Standard Model with Savas Dimopoulos in 1981. After the measurements of the three Standard Model gauge couplings at LEP I in 1991, it was shown that particle content of the MSSM, in contrast to the Standard Model alone, led to precision gauge coupling unification.
He has since worked on several different areas of physics including composite Higgs models, heavy quark effective theory, dimensional deconstruction, and little Higgs theories.
Georgi has been a strong advocate for women in science.
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