Peter van Nieuwenhuizen

Peter van Nieuwenhuizen (born October 26, 1938 in Utrecht ) is a Dutch theoretical physicist and one of the developers of the theory of supergravity .

Live and act

Van Nieuwenhuizen studied mathematics and physics at the University of Utrecht , where he received his doctorate in 1971 under Martinus JG Veltman . He then spent two years at CERN (1969 to 1971), at the University of Paris in Orsay (1971 to 1973) and Brandeis University (1973 to 1975) and from 1975 at Stony Brook University , initially as an assistant professor 1977 as associate professor and from 1979 as professor. From 2001 he was Distinguished Professor of Physics there. From 1999 to 2002, he succeeded Chen Ning Yang as director of the CN Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics . 1985 to 1995 he was also Teyler Professor of Theoretical Physics in Leiden and 1983 and 1986 visiting professor at the University of Utrecht. He was also visiting professor at the École normal supérieure in 1977 and visiting scholar at CERN several times (1978, 1982/83, 1992).

Nieuwenhuizen worked alongside his work on supersymmetry and supergravity a . a. about string theory , conformal field theories , W-gravitation, nonlinear sigma models, instantons and Kaluza-Klein theories .

He is a corresponding member of the Dutch and Austrian Academy of Sciences . In 2005 he became an honorary professor at the Vienna University of Technology . He has been a Fellow of the American Physical Society since 1994 .

Peter van Nieuwenhuizen is married and has three children.

Ergin Sezgin is one of his PhD students .

Awards

• In 1993 he received the Dirac Medal (ICTP) for developing the theory of supergravity with Sergio Ferrara and Daniel Z. Freedman .
• In 2004 he became a Knight of the Dutch Lion .
• In 2006 he received the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics .
• In 2019 Nieuwenhuizen was awarded the Special Fundamental Physics Prize together with Ferrara and Freedman .

Fonts (selection)

• Super gravity . In: Physics reports , Volume 68 (1981), p. 189, ISSN  0370-1573
• together with Freedman and Ferrara: Progress towards a theory of supergravitation . In: Physical Review D , Vol. 13 (1976), p. 3214, ISSN  0556-2821
• together with Marcus T. Grisaru and Jos Vermaseren : 1 loop renormizability of pure supergravitation and of Maxwell Einstein theory in extended supergravitation . In: Physical Review Letters , Vol. 37 (1976), p. 1662, ISSN  0031-9007
• together with Freedman: Properties of supergravitation . In: Physical Review D , Vol. 14 (1976), p. 912, ISSN  0556-2821
• together with Friedman: Supergravitation and the unification of the laws of physics . In: Scientific American , January 1978, ISSN  0036-8733
• together with Friedman: The hidden dimensions of spacetime . In: Scientific American , 1985, ISSN  0036-8733
  • German: In: Spektrum der Wissenschaft , May 1985, ISSN  0170-2971

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Named after Johannes Teyler (around 1648 – around 1703).
2. ^ Van Nieuwenhuizen, Pieter - Author profile . INSPIRE-HEP . Retrieved July 19, 2019.
3. ↑ Named after Paul Dirac (1902–1984).
4. ↑ Named after Dannie Heineman (1872–1962).

Web links

• Homepage
• 2006 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics Recipient Peter van Nieuwenhuizen. APS, 2006. 
• Peter Van Nieuwenhuizen. In: Physics History Network. American Institute of Physics