Oliver Keith Baker is an American experimental particle physicist and astrophysicist, best known for his work on the Higgs boson and dark matter.
[1] Baker completed a post-doc at Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1986 to 1988 conducting research on muon catalyzed fusion.
[2] After his post-doc, Baker joined Hampton University in 1989[3] as an assistant professor in the physics department with a joint appointment as a staff scientist at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility.
[3][1] In 2006, Baker began professorship at Yale University where he was the first tenured African American faculty member in the physics department.
[7] In 2010, Baker became director of Yale's A. W. Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory,[4][8] which includes state-of-the-art facilities for the study of neutrinos, dark matter and fundamental physics.