John Clements Collins
John Clements Collins (born December 8, 1949 in Colchester , Great Britain ) is a British-American theoretical elementary particle physicist.
Collins studied at Cambridge University , where he received his bachelor's degree in 1971 and his PhD in 1975. He then was a postdoc and assistant professor at Princeton University . From 1980 he was at the Illinois Institute of Technology and from 1990 at the Pennsylvania State University , where he is currently (2009) Distinguished Professor of Physics.
Collins worked in high energy physics and especially in perturbative quantum chromodynamics . With Davison E. Soper and George Sterman he proved important factorization theorems there.
In 1986/7 he was a Guggenheim Fellow , and in 2000 he received the Humboldt Research Award. In 2007 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . In 2009 he received the Sakurai Prize with Davison E. Soper and R. Keith Ellis .
Fonts
- Renormalization - an introduction to renormalization, the renormalization group and operator product expansion . Cambridge University Press 1984
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| SURNAME | Collins, John Clements |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 8, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Colchester |