Person Shipsey; Ian Peter (1959 - 2024); particle physicist Shipsey Ian Peter particle physicist 1959 - 2024 British American Male Clapton, Hackney, London, England, United Kingdom 23/07/1959 19590723 Oxford, England, United Kingdom 07/10/2024 20241007

Particle Physicist Subatomic particles Elementary particle physics Particle physics 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); predominantly worked on CERN NA31 experiment. 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 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. Committees: Sectional Committee 2: Astronomy and physics 2023-2024 Fellow 21/04/2022 62 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] International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 The past Fellows entries are under continuous revision. If you have queries or additional information to contribute, please contact Library@royalsociety.org. Content in external sources is not controlled by the Royal Society and historical sources may include content that is now unacceptable. Reviewed on 01/04/2025 as part of the Name Authority Project update. NA10479 27/04/2022 RS_NET\VirginiaM 02/10/2025 RS_NET\VidaM Yes 9206ecc1-d18a-451e-bdb8-959f1122ea1e