Professor Picker earned his S.B. (1963) and Ph.D. (1966) in physics at M.I.T. Following postdoctoral fellowships and appointments at Carnegie Institute of Technology, the Niels Bohr Institute (Copenhagen), Princeton, and the University of Maryland, he came to Trinity in 1971. He thinks of physics as an engaging duel of wits with the universe (and with other physicists) in which a running score is tallied in the form of theoretical predictions versus experimental data. To keep track of things, it is essential to organize one's thoughts. Amusements in the form of new ideas, new ways of looking at old ideas, and a thorough intellectual workout are its rewards.

• Picker, H. S., and J.P. Lavine. "Electron Escape From A Quantum Well." Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. 464, (1997): 275.
• Picker, H. S. "Electrodisintegration And Electro-Capture In Primordial Nucleosynthesis." Phys. Rev. C 30 (1984): 1751.

• Picker, H. S. "On The Fusion Of Hydrogen Isotopes In Ordinary Molecules." Invited contribution to the Kuchowicz memorial issue of Nukleonika 25 (1980): 1491.

• Picker, H. S., and M.I. Haftel. Bounds On The Rate Of 1H(p, e+nue)2H In Impulse Approximation." Phys. Rev. C 14 (1976): 1293.

• Blondelot Professor, Ecole Normale Inferieure (Liege) 1995-present.
• Yale University Visiting Faculty Fellow 1983-84.
• Research Corporation Grant 1974, 1975.
• Center for Theoretical Physics Fellow, University of Maryland 1970-1971.
• National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship 1963-1966.
• National Science Postdoctoral Fellowship 1967-1968.
• Woodrow Wilson Fellowship (honorary) 1963.