Wise was born in
Montreal,
Quebec, Canada. He was educated at the
University of Toronto (
B.S., 1976;
M.S., 1977) and
Stanford University (
Ph.D., 1980). While still a student, he co-authored a book on mathematical methods in physics with Toronto professor Lynn Trainor. With
Fred Gilman, his graduate advisor at Stanford, Wise wrote several highly influential papers on experimental predictions of the
quark model. Wise was a junior fellow at the
Harvard Society of Fellows from 1980 to 1983. He has been at the
California Institute of Technology (Caltech) since then. Wise is currently the
John A. McCone Professor of High Energy Physics at Caltech, a fellow of the
American Physical Society (2003), and a member of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the
National Academy of Sciences. From 1984 to 1987 he was a fellow of the
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He shared the 2001
Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics with
Nathan Isgur and Mikhail Voloshin, "for the construction of the heavy
quark mass expansion and the discovery of the heavy quark symmetry in
quantum chromodynamics, which led to a quantitative theory of the decays of
c and
b flavored
hadrons." He has supervised over three dozen graduate students. Wise was the science consultant for
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