Pierre Ramond

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Pierre Ramond (born January 31, 1943 in Neuilly-sur-Seine ) is a French-born American theoretical physicist who mainly works on string theory and quantum field theory .

Ramond began studying engineering at Newark College of Engineering (now the New Jersey Institute of Technology , NJIT), where he received his bachelor's degree in 1965 . He then studied physics as an NDEA fellow at Syracuse University , where he received his doctorate in 1969 . Until 1971 he was a postdoc at Fermilab and from 1971 an instructor at Yale University , where he became an assistant professor in 1973. From 1975 he was RAMillikan Senior Fellow at Caltech and from 1979 Research Associate at Caltech. In 1980 he became a professor at the University of Florida in Gainesville , since 1999 as a Distinguished Professor. In 2007 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study .

Ramond developed the first string theory for fermions (NSR-String) independently of André Neveu and John Schwarz . This theory already showed two-dimensional (“world surface”) supersymmetry (suggested before the discovery of supersymmetry in 4-dimensional space-time). Later he occupied himself a. a. with GUTs and the mechanisms of mass generation of elementary particles in GUTs. In 1974 he introduced the Kalb-Ramond field (also called B field) as a generalization of the vector potential of point particles to a 2-form in string theory.

In 1985 he was a Guggenheim Fellow . In 1992 he received the Boris Pregel Prize from the New York Academy of Sciences , in 2004 he received the Oskar Klein Medal from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and Stockholm University and in 2007 the Lise Meitner Prize from the University of Gothenburg and the Chalmers Institute of Technology . For 2015 he was awarded the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics and for 2020 the Dirac Medal of the International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP). From 1996 to 1998 he was President of the Aspen Center for Physics , on whose board he is. In 1998 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Fonts

  • Field Theory - a modern primer . Addison-Wesley, Frontiers in Physics, 1981, 2nd edition, Westview Press 2001, ISBN 0-201-30450-3
  • Journeys beyond the Standard Model . Perseus Books, 1999, ISBN 0-7382-0116-2
  • Editor with Raymond Stora : Architecture of fundamental interactions at short distances . North Holland 1986
  • Editor with P. Sikvie: Yukawa Couplings and the Origin of Mass . International Press 1996

Web links

References and Notes

  1. ↑ Ramond: Dual theory of free fermions . In: Physical Review D . Volume 3, 1971, p. 2415
  2. ↑ 1971 by the Russians Golfand and Likthman and later by Julius Wess and Bruno Zumino in 1974
  3. ^ Michael Kalb, Pierre Ramond: Classical direct interstring action, Phys. Rev. D 9, 1974, pp. 2273-2284
personal data
SURNAME Ramond, Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuilly-sur-Seine