Peter Landshoff
Peter Vincent Landshoff (born March 22, 1937 ) is a British theoretical physicist who deals with elementary particle physics (physics of strong interaction at high energies).
Life
Landshoff, who studied with John Polkinghorne in Cambridge and received his doctorate there in 1962, was Professor of Mathematical Physics at the University of Cambridge (DAMTP) and head of the School of Physical Sciences until his retirement in 2004 . He has been a Fellow of Christ's College in Cambridge since 1963 and was its Vice-Masters.
In 1966 he was Visiting Associate Professor at the University of California and 1961/62 instructor at Princeton University . From 1961 to 1963 he was a Research Fellow at St John's College , Cambridge.
At Cambridge he played a leading role in founding the Isaac Newton Institute , the Millenium Mathematics Project , the Computational Biology Institute and the expansion of the Center for Mathematical Sciences . After his retirement he was a trustee of Cambridge Past, Present and Future (the former Cambridge Preservation Society).
At the end of the 1980s, together with Otto Nachtmann , he developed the Landshoff-Nachtmann model to explain the increase in the total cross-sections in many particle scattering processes of the strong interaction (explanation of the Pomeron exchange, which is held responsible for the increase since Pomeranschuk, in the QCD).
From 1983 to 2005 he was editor of Physics Letters B.
Fonts
- with Sandy Donnachie, Günter Dosch , Otto Nachtmann Pomeron physics and QCD , Cambridge University Press 2002, 2005
- with Allen Metherell, Gareth Rees Essential quantum physics , Cambridge University Press 1997
- with Allen Metherell Simple quantum physics , Cambridge University Press 1979
- with John Polkinghorne , Richard J. Eden , David Olive The Analytic S-Matrix , Cambridge University Press 1966, 2002
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Landshoff-Nachtmann model from Landshoff, Scholarpedia
- ^ Landshoff, Nachtmann Zeitschrift für Physik C, 35, 1987, 405
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Landshoff, Peter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Landshoff, Peter Vincent (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 22, 1937 |