| Authorised form of name | Shipsey; Ian Peter; particle physicist |
| Nationality | British |
| American |
| Place of birth | Clapton, Hackney, London, England, United Kingdom |
| Date of birth | 23 July 1959 |
| Place of death | Oxford, England, United Kingdom |
| Date of death | 7 October 2024 |
| Occupation | Particle Physicist |
| Research field | Subatomic particles |
| Elementary particle physics |
| Particle physics |
| Activity | Education: Queen Mary BSc 1982; Edinburgh University PhD 1986
Career:
Moved to the USA, working at Syracuse University, New York, USA; Assistant Professor at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA (2007); came to Oxford as Henry Moseley Centenary Professor (2013); elected Head of Physics, Oxford University (2018); re-elected (2023); predoinantly worked on CERN NA31 experiment. |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 21/04/2022 |
| Age at election | 62 |
| RSActivity | Committees:
Sectional Committee 2: Astronomy and physics 2023-2024 |
| Relationships | Spouse: (m. 1988) Professor Daniela Bortoletto, Italian-British high energy physicist, head of Particle Physics at the University of Oxford and Nicholas Kurti Senior Research Fellow in Physics at Brasenose College, University of Oxford.
Children: Francesca Shipsey |
| OtherInfo | Distinguished for contributions to the flavour problem, the Standard Model's inability to explain three generations of fermions. He made crucial contributions to the most precise determination of four of the nine weak force quark couplings (with CLEO/CLEO-c at Cornell), observed rare b-quark decay processes (with CMS at LHC) and contributed to evidence for Higgs-field generation of the muon mass (with ATLAS at LHC), first measurement of LHC b-quark production (CMS); and Upsilon suppression in heavy-ion collisions, providing evidence for the Quark-Gluon Plasma (CMS).
To enable these measurements, he constructed silicon cameras for CLEO and CMS, and currently ATLAS. Instrumental to the approval and success of CLEO-c, he was thrice elected CLEO/CLEO-c co-leader. Ian co-led the LHC Physics Center at Fermilab. Leveraging his silicon expertise, he pioneered U.S. DOE particle-physics involvement in Rubin/LSST, and contributes to development of its 3-Gigapixel CCD camera. He was instrumental in developing UKRI's Quantum Technologies for Fundamental Physics Programme. |
| Source | The Royal Society Fellows Directory, Professor Ian Shipsey FRS, [URL: https://royalsociety.org/people/ian-shipsey-35829/; last accessed: 01/04/2025]
University of Oxford, Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division, Professor Ian Shipsey FRS, 8 October 2024, [URL: https://www.mpls.ox.ac.uk/latest/news/ian-shipsey; last accessed: 01/04/2025]
University of Oxford, Professor Ian Shipsey FRS, 8 October 2024, [URL: https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2024-10-08-professor-ian-shipsey-frs; last accessed: 01/04/2025] |
| Code | NA10479 |