Professor harrison b prosper biography channel

Welcome to my personal homepage. Most of my professional life is spent mentoring students, post docs, and junior faculty at my home institution and elsewhere. I'm happy to do this because, firstly, it is highly rewarding.

Secondly, it keeps me motivated and intellectually engaged. Thirdly, there is always that tiny chance that I might have inspired someone who one day will change the world for the better.

Professor harrison b prosper biography channel youtube

What I try to do is to help each young person strive for excellence while maintaining a ferocious curiosity about the world. Research is not for everyone. It is mostly difficult, frustrating, and stressful. But, once in a while, it is exhilirating, euphoric, sublime.

Being party to a discovery is a truly awesome experience and I have had the good fortune of experiencing the thrill of discovery four times: the discovery of the gluon at DESY, Hamburg, Germany; the discovery of the top quark at Fermilab, Batavia, USA, followed, at the same lab, by the discovery in that the to