Davison "Dave" Eugene Soper (21 March 1943, Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American theoretical physicist specializing in high energy physics.
[1] Soper received his bachelor's degree in 1965 from Amherst College and his PhD in 1971 under James Bjorken from Stanford University, where he worked with John Kogut.
With George Sterman and John C. Collins, he proved a factorization theorem in perturbative quantum chromodynamics (QCD).
[4][5] Soper is a member of the "Coordinated Theoretical-Experimental Project on QCD“ (CTEQ), whose co-spokesperson he was from 2001 to 2004.
He was cited " For seminal work in Perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics, especially proving theorems on factorization which play a crucial role in interpreting high energy particle collisions.