Nathan Seiberg

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Nathan "Nati" Seiberg (born September 22, 1956 in Tel Aviv ) is an Israeli - American theoretical physicist .

Seiberg studied at Tel Aviv University from 1975 to 1977 and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree. After his military service, he received his doctorate in 1982 at the Weizmann Institute under Haim Harari . After a stay at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton , he was a research assistant from 1985 to 1991, then from 1989 professor at the Weizmann Institute. From 1989 to 1997 he was a professor at Rutgers University and since 1997 he has been a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study (where he was a member from 1982 to 1989 and 1994/95). From 1998 he was also visiting professor at Princeton University.

Seiberg's contributions to theoretical physics include work on gauge theory , supersymmetry , S-duality in connection with supersymmetric gauge theories, publications on the complete solvability of N = 2 supersymmetric gauge theories in four dimensions and on the occurrence of non-commutative geometry in the theory of open strings (with Edward Witten ), a proof that M-theory in the Lichtkegeleichung can be described (light cone gauge) by a matrix theory and work to gluino -condensation in the string theory.

In the early 1980s, he dealt with Haim Harari with his rishon model .

With Witten in 1994 he developed the Seiberg-Witten theory , which describes the exact solution of the effective low-energy theory of a supersymmetric gauge theory in four dimensions.

In 1998 he received the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics . In 1996 he was a MacArthur Fellow . In 2012 he received the Fundamental Physics Prize . In 2001 he became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2008 the National Academy of Sciences . In 2009 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . In 2016 he received the  Dirac Medal (ICTP) .

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