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Profile

Richard J. Fitzgerald

Current Positions
Editor-in-Chief, Physics Today  
About

Richard Fitzgerald joined the staff of Physics Today in 1998 as an associate editor and served as the longtime managing editor before becoming Editor-in-Chief in 2022.

He earned his bachelor’s in physics from Princeton University and received a PhD in physics from Harvard University. His scientific background is in superconductivity, nanoelectronics, and atomics physics.