Richard Keith Ellis

Richard Keith Ellis (born November 17, 1949) is a theoretical physicist, at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and a leading authorityon perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics. He graduated from Oxford University (MA 1971, D. Phil 1974). He has held positions at Imperial College, MIT, CalTech, CERN and the University of Rome.He came to Fermilab in 1984. He was Head of the Theoretical Physics Department at Fermilab from 1993 to 2004.Ellis' work is of importance to the study of elementary particles at colliders, such as the Fermilab Tevatron, and the CERN Large Hadron Collider.

Ellis was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1988.

elected publications

Ellis' publications are available on the SPIRES HEP Literature Database [http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/hep/] . He is the coauthor with W. J. Stirling and B. R. Webber of a book on [http://www.hep.phy.cam.ac.uk/theory/webber/QCDbook.html QCD and collider physics] published byCambridge University Press in 1996.