Matthew Peter Headrick (born ca.
1973[6]) is an American physicist who is an Associate Professor of Physics at Brandeis University.
[5] Headrick is known for his contributions to the quantum information perspective on holography.
Headrick is notable as the 1990 winner of the Intel (then Westinghouse) Science Talent Search while a high school student at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, an event that generated intense media coverage.
Thompson declared a "Matthew Headrick Day"[6][9] and the US House of Representatives also made a proclamation.