Huth Accepts Tenure Offer in Physics Dept.

John E. Huth, a high energy particle physicist at the Fermi Institute in Batavia, Ill., last week accepted a tenure offer from the Physics Department.

Huth said yesterday he has not yet settled which courses he would teach when he arrives on campus in September, 1993.

The physicist, who has not yet held a full-time teaching position, said that he was considering teaching in the Core curriculum.

"We're extremely happy that he's accepted," Professor of Physics Gary J. Feldman said last night. "[He] is one of the most outstanding young particle physicists in the country."

Huth, who is 34, was offered tenure in June, along with Loeb Associate Professor of the Natural Sciences Melissa Franklin. Franklin accepted the offer last month.

Both Huth and Franklin are researching aspects of the Standard Model of physics, which may ultimately predict the generation of mass in the universe.

Huth is currently attempting a high precision measurement of the sixth or "top" quark, thought to be the last undiscovered part of the atom.

Feldman called the search one of the "pressing goals" for the coming year. Huth, Feldman, Franklin and Director of the High Energy Physics Laboratory George W. Brandenburg '66 will be working on a number of projects related to the quest.

Huth, born in London, graduated from Princeton with an honors degree in physics in 1979. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1984.

Since 1990, he has been associate department head of the Collider Detector at Fermi, where he has worked since 1985.

Huth said he could not bring his work at Fermi to a close for "at least two years" and that he will travel between Cambridge and Batavia for his first year here.

Huth and Franklin have collaborated on a number of projects involving the Collider Detector at Fermi. They met in 1981 while working as graduate students at the Stanford Linear Accelerator.