My focus is placed on theoretical studies of electroweak interactions with nucleons and nuclei.


Name: T. William Donnelly
Title: Senior Research Scientist
Email: donnelly@mit.edu
Phone: (617) 253-4847
Office: MIT Department of Physics
77 Massachusetts Avenue, 26-403
Cambridge, MA 02139

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Area of Physics

High-energy and Particle Theory, Strong Interaction and Nuclear Theory

Research Interests

Nuclear and Particle Theory

Biographical Sketch

PhD 1967, University of British Columbia; Post-doc 1967-69, Stanford University; Post-doc 1969, University of Toronto; Lecturer 1970, University of Toronto; Assistant Professor 1971-1979, Stanford University; Senior Research Associate 1979-2015, MIT; Research Affiliate 2015-present, MIT

Awards and Honors

  • 1990 – APS Fellow “For extensive theoretical studies of the electroweak structure of nuclei and for developing the framework needed to exploit polarization observables in electron scattering.”
  • 1987-88 – Humboldt Senior Research Award
  • 1974-75 – Sloan Fellowship
  • 1967-69 – National Research Council of Canada, Post-doc

Selected Publications

Forthcoming.