Michael Andrew Parker (born 1956) is a British physicist and is professor of high energy physics at the University of Cambridge.
Parker is involved with CERN's Large Hadron Collider project, and was previously the head of the department of Physics at the University of Cambridge, the Cavendish Laboratory.
[3] He graduated in 1978 with a Class II degree in Physics from Pembroke College, Oxford.
[5] Parker began working at CERN as a summer student, and was a permanent member of staff from 1982 until 1989.
Parker was heavily involved in the ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider, which was responsible for the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012.