Of ~87 names tied to Prime Intellect, one — Garrett Goon — verifiably holds a physics PhD; none is confirmed in particle physics specifically
Asked:
“Can you find a list of publicly available names of people who are or have been employees of prime intellect ai and also have physics phds, particle physics in particular”
A best-effort public-web scan screened roughly 87 publicly surfaced names affiliated with Prime Intellect. This is not an official or exhaustive employee directory. Exactly one person met the strict bar of verified Prime Intellect employment plus a verified physics PhD: Garrett Goon, evidenced by four public sources below. People who only coauthored a Prime Intellect report, or physics researchers without physics PhDs, are excluded.
Physics PhD
Confirmed
Theoretical Physics, University of Pennsylvania, 2014
Particle-physics PhD
Not established
Sources say theoretical physics — QFT, gravity, cosmology — not particle physics specifically
Employment evidence
His public LinkedIn lists Research Engineer at Prime Intellect, August 2026 – present.
linkedin.comHe is a member of the Prime Intellect organization on Hugging Face (username garrett361).
huggingface.coEducation and research-area evidence
His personal CV independently lists a Physics PhD from the University of Pennsylvania (2014), with a thesis on Galileons and work spanning effective field theory, massive gravity, cosmology and black hole thermodynamics.
garrettgoon.comA 2013 Penn Physics news article confirms he was a Penn physics graduate student, working on scalar field theories for cosmology connected to massive gravity.
live-sas-physics.pantheon.sas.upenn.eduHis research is high-energy/theoretical-physics-adjacent — quantum field theory, general relativity, cosmology — but no source names the doctorate as particle physics.
linkedin.comEvidence rows
| Source | Prime Intellect link | Doctorate | Physics topics | Link |
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Method: 4 public evidence rows about Garrett Goon (LinkedIn, personal CV, Penn Physics news, Hugging Face), drawn from a public-web scan that screened ~87 names publicly affiliated with Prime Intellect; retrieved 2025. Each row records source type, employment claim, doctorate details and research topics; long topic lists shortened for space. Best-effort public result, not an official employee directory.