Caltech Mourns the Passing of Mark B. Wise (1953–2026)
Mark B. Wise, Caltech's John A. McCone Professor of High Energy Physics, passed away on July 10, 2026. He was 72. Wise, a particle physicist whose research focused on the fundamental constituents of matter and their interactions, played a key role in the development of the "heavy quark effective theory," a tool that has allowed physicists to make precise predictions in the study of strong…
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