Philip Candelas
Philip Candelas (born October 24, 1951 in London ) is a British physicist who works with string theory.
Candelas studied from 1970 at Cambridge University ( Christ's College ), with a bachelor's degree in 1973, and from 1972 at Oxford University at Wadham College , where he was a student of Dennis Sciama . From 1975 he was a Research Fellow at Balliol College in Oxford and from 1976/77 he was at the University of Texas at Austin with John Archibald Wheeler . In 1977 he received his doctorate in Oxford with the thesis Quantum Gravity . He then went back to the University of Texas, where he became Assistant Professor in 1977, Associate Professor in 1983 and Professor in 1989. Since 1999 he has been the Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at Oxford.
He was at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1993/94 , visiting scholar at CERN from 1991 to 1993 and visiting professor at Princeton University in 1995 .
Candelas is best known for a 1985 work with Edward Witten , Andrew Strominger, and Gary Horowitz , in which they introduced the compactification of superstring theories with Calabi-Yau spaces . It deals continue with the geometry of Calabi-Yau spaces and relations with number theory and made fundamental contributions to the mirror symmetry ( mirror symmetry ).
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society .
In addition to being a British citizen, he is also a US citizen. He is married to the mathematics professor Xenia de la Ossa and has two daughters.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Candelas, Philip - Author profile . INSPIRE-HEP . Retrieved July 17, 2019.
- ↑ P. Candelas, Gary T. Horowitz, Andrew Strominger, Edward Witten: Vacuum configurations for superstrings . In: Nuclear Physics B . tape 258 , 1985, pp. 46-74 , doi : 10.1016 / 0550-3213 (85) 90602-9 .
- ↑ Candelas at the Royal Society
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| SURNAME | Candelas, Philip |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 24, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |