Lance Jenkins Dixon (born 22 June 1961, in Pasadena, California) is an American theoretical particle physicist.
in physics and applied mathematics from Caltech and received in 1986 his doctorate from Princeton University.
He has been a visiting professor at the École normale supérieure and the University of Cambridge (Clare Hall).
These new methods became more relevant with the requirements of the Large Hadron Collider calculations in the 2000s and also provided new insights into the divergences in the supergravity perturbation series.
In 2014, with Zvi Bern and David Kosower, Dixon received the Sakurai Prize for "pathbreaking contributions to the calculation of perturbative scattering amplitudes, which led to a deeper understanding of quantum field theory and to powerful new tools for computing QCD processes.