Bernard de Wit
Bernard de Wit (* 1945 ) is a Dutch theoretical physicist who deals with supergravity and string theory.
De Wit studied at the University of Utrecht , where he received his doctorate in 1973 with Martinus Veltman . As a post-doctoral student he was at SUNY , in Utrecht and Leiden. In 1978 he became a member of the National Institute for Nuclear and High Energy Physics of the Netherlands NIKHEF in Amsterdam. In 1981 he became head of the theory group there. In 1984 he became a professor at the University of Utrecht. In 2010 he retired, but is still scientifically active.
In the mid-1980s, with Hermann Nicolai, he found the N = 8 supergravity theory, which arises from the dimensional reduction of the maximally supersymmetrical d = 11 supergravity to four space-time dimensions d = 4 and in many ways a maximum supersymmetry for a supergravity theory with one gravity and does not have a particle with a spin greater than 2.
Eric Bergshoeff is one of his doctoral students
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ De Wit, Nicolai N = 8 Supergravity , Nucl. Phys. B 208, 1982, p. 323
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Wit, Bernard de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1945 |