John C. Taylor (physicist)

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John Clayton Taylor (born August 4, 1930 ) is a British physicist.

Taylor studied at Cambridge and was a student of Abdus Salam at Imperial College . From 1957 to 1961 he was a lecturer in theoretical physics at Imperial College and then a lecturer at Cambridge before becoming a reader at Oxford University in 1964 . From 1980 until his retirement in 1995 he was Professor of Mathematical Physics at Cambridge University . In 1981 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society .

Taylor made important contributions to gauge theories in the 1970s , for example the Slavnov-Taylor identities (also named after Andrei Alexejewitsch Slavnov ), which played an important role in renormalizing Yang Mills fields , and the behavior of the Yang Mills -Fields behavior at low energies ( infrared limit value ). Later he also dealt with quantum field theory at finite temperature (thermal field theory) and quantum noise.

Paul Frampton is one of his PhD students .

Fonts

  • Hidden unity in nature's laws . Cambridge University Press, 2001, ISBN 0521659388
  • Gauge theories of weak interactions . Cambridge University Press, 1976
  • as editor: Gauge theories in the Twentieth Century . World Scientific, Imperial College Press, 2001
  • Gauge theories in particle physics . In Paul Davies (editor): The new physics . Cambridge University Press, 1989

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Taylor Ward identities and charge renormalization of the Yang-Mills field , Nucl. Phys. B, Volume 33, 1971, p. 436
  2. ^ R. Doria, J. Frenkel, Taylor Counter-example to non-abelian Bloch-Nordsieck conjecture , Nucl. Phys. B, Volume 168, 1980, p. 93, bibcode : 1980NuPhB.168 ... 93D
  3. ↑ Taylor, J. Frenkel High-temperature limit of thermal QCD , Nucl. Phys B, Volume 334, 1991, p. 199
personal data
SURNAME Taylor, John C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Taylor, John Clayton (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British physicist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1930