Richard D. Field

Richard Dryden Field Jr. is an emeritus professor of physics at the University of Florida in Gainesville, born in Pasadena, California in 1944, who is known particularly for his contributions to the phenomenology of particle production in high-energy particle accelerators. He studied physics at the University of California, Berkeley, took his PhD in 1971 under the supervision of John David Jackson, did postdoctoral work at Brookhaven National Laboratory, and in 1973 moved to the California Institute of Technology to work with Richard Feynman, producing the Field-Feynman Monte Carlo for quark and gluon fragmentation. There he served as the PhD thesis advisor of Stephen Wolfram. He moved to the University of Florida in 1980 and was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1987.