Nicholas Manton
Nicholas Stephen Manton , called Nick Manton, (* 1952 ) is a British mathematical physicist and mathematician . He deals with topological field excitations in quantum field theory (solitons, skyrmions, instantons, monopoles).
Manton received his doctorate in 1978 from the University of Cambridge with Peter Goddard ( Magnetic monopoles and other extended objects in field theory ). and is a professor at Cambridge in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP).
In 1984 he and Frans Klinkhamer introduced sphalerons , topological field excitations that are discussed as a possible mechanism for violating the baryon number.
Manton became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1996 .
Fonts
- with Paul M. Sutcliffe Topological Solitons , Cambridge University Press 2004
Web links
- Homepage
- Literature by and about Nicholas Manton in the WorldCat bibliographic database
Individual evidence
- ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ FR Klinkhamer, Manton "A saddle-point solution in the Weinberg-Salam theory", Phys. Rev. D, Vol. 30, 1984, pp. 2212-2220
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Manton, Nicholas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Manton, Nicholas Stephen (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British physicist and mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1952 |