Gary Gibbons
Gary William Gibbons (born July 1, 1946 in Coulsdon , Surrey ) is a British theoretical physicist .
life and work
Gibbons studied at Cambridge University , where he became a research student under Dennis Sciama in 1969 . When Sciama went to Oxford University , he became a student of Stephen Hawking and received his PhD in 1973 ( Some Aspects of Gravitational Radiation and Gravitational Collapse ). In addition to his research work at the Max Planck Institute in 1976/77, he remained in Cambridge throughout his career and became a full professor in 1997, a member of the Royal Society in 1999 and a Fellow of Trinity College in 2002 . 1986 // 87 he was at the École normal supérieure (and again in 1999) and the observatory in Meudon , 1980 at the University of California, Santa Barbara , 1992 Kramers professor at the University of Utrecht , 2000 Yukawa professor at the University of Kyoto , 1990 at IHES and 2003 visiting professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology .
While Gibbons initially worked on classical general relativity for his doctoral thesis, he later concentrated on the quantum theory of black holes . Together with Malcolm J. Perry , he used Green's thermal functions to show the generality of thermodynamic properties of horizons, including cosmological event horizons. He developed the Euclidean approach to quantum gravity ( Euclidean quantum gravity ) with Stephen Hawking , which allows the thermodynamics of black holes to be derived using the method of a functional integral.
His work in recent years includes contributions to supergravity , p-branes, and M-theory , which are mainly motivated by string theory . Gibbons remains interested in geometrical problems of all kinds that find application in physics.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gibbons, GW, Hawking, SW : Cosmological Event Horizons, Thermodynamics, and Particle Creation . In: Physical Review . D 15, 1977, pp. 2738-2751. doi : 10.1103 / PhysRevD.15.2738 .
- ^ Gibbons, GW, Hawking, SW : Action Integrals and Partition Functions in Quantum Gravity . In: Physical Review . D 15, 1977, pp. 2752-2756. doi : 10.1103 / PhysRevD.15.2752 .
- ^ Gibbons, GW: Born-Infeld particles and Dirichlet p-branes . In: Nucl. Phys. . B 514, 1998, pp. 603-639. arxiv : hep-th / 9709027 .
Books
- Editor with Stephen Hawking: Euclidean Quantum Gravity . World Scientific, Singapore 1993, ISBN 981-02-0516-3
- Editor with EPS Shellard, SJ Rankin: The future of theoretical physics and cosmology. Celebrating Stephen Hawking's 60th birthday , Cambridge University Press 2003 (in it by Gibbons: Euclidean quantum gravity- the view from 2002 )
See also
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personal data | |
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SURNAME | Gibbons, Gary |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gibbons, Gary William (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British theoretical physicist |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 1, 1946 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Coulsdon , Surrey |