David Shoemaker (physicist)
American gravitational-wave scientist
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David H. Shoemaker is an American physicist who is a Senior Research Scientist at the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1]
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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]
