Rodolfo Gambini
Rodolfo Gambini (* 1946 in Montevideo ) is a theoretical physicist who deals with quantum gravity . He is a professor at the Universidad de la República in Montevideo.
Gambini studied in Montevideo, did his doctorate at the University of Paris-Süd (Paris XI) and at the Institut Henri Poincaré under Achille Papapetrou (the thesis was on the propagation of gravitational waves in elastic media) and was then titular professor at the Universidad Simón Bolívar in Caracas in 1985 . In 1987, after the return of democracy, he went back to Uruguay and became a professor in Montevideo.
Gambini is one of the pioneers of loop quantum gravity . In 1986 he introduced the loop variable to Yang Mills theories with Antoni Trias . From 1990 he worked closely with the Argentine physicist Jorge Pullin and is often with him as a visiting scientist at Louisiana State University. For example, they discovered connections with knot theory (the subject of an early monograph on loop quantum gravity with pullin) and showed that the Jones polynomial is the solution of the quantized Einstein equations in loop quantum gravity.
With Pullin, he predicted non-classical forms of light propagation from loop quantum gravity.
Gambini also published on lattice scale theories, fundamentals of quantum mechanics (with its own Montevideo interpretation of quantum mechanics) and philosophical questions.
He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science . He is a member of the Third World Academy of Sciences , the Argentine Academy of Sciences and the Latin American Academy of Science. In 2004 he received the Medal for Science of the President of Uruguay and in 2003 the Physics Prize of the Third World Academy of Sciences.
From 2003 to 2008 he headed the state funding organization for science of Uruguay (Pedeciba).
Fonts
- with Pullin A first course in Loop Quantum Gravity , Oxford University Press 2011
- with Pullin Loops, Knots, Gauge Theories and Quantum Gravity , Cambridge University Press 1996
Web links
- Biography at Pedeciba, Spanish (PDF; 59 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bernd Bruegmann, Gambini, Pullin Jones Polynomials for Intersecting Knots as Physical States of Quantum Gravity , Nuclear Physics B, Volume 385, 1992, pp. 587-603, Arxiv
- ↑ Gambini, Pullin Nonstandard optics from quantum space-time , Phys. Rev. D, Vol. 59, 1999, p. 124021, Arxiv
- ↑ Gambini, Garcia-Pintos, Pullin An axiomatic formulation of the Montevideo Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics , Studies In History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, Volume 42, 2011, pp. 256-263, Arxiv Preprint 2011
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Gambini, Rodolfo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Uruguayan physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montevideo |