Roman Jackiw
Roman Wladimir Jackiw (born November 8, 1939 in Lubliniec , Poland ) is an American theoretical physicist .
Life
Jackiw received his PhD from Cornell University in 1966 with Hans Bethe with the thesis Nonperturbative Solutions of the Bethe-Salpeter Equation for the Vertex Function . From 1966 to 1969 he was (together with David Gross ) a Junior Fellow at Harvard . He has been a professor at the MIT Center for Theoretical Physics since 1969 . He has been retired since 2012.
Jackiw is best known as the co-discoverer of the axial anomaly in quantum field theory , also known as the Adler-Bell-Jackiw anomaly or chiral anomaly . The decay of a neutral pion into two photons observed in nature is classically forbidden. The quantum field theoretical mechanism, which nevertheless enables the decay, was clarified by Jackiw together with John Stewart Bell and at the same time by Stephen L. Adler in 1969 ( Nuovo Cimento. Series A, Volume 60, p. 47). The anomalies of quantum field theory that they introduced later also led to predictions about the particle spectrum in GUTs , for which anomalies freedom is required. Later Jackiw u. a. with topological suggestions in quantum field theories and soliton theories with fractional charges, which were used in solid state physics.
In 1995 he received the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics and in 1998 the Dirac Medal (ICTP) . He was a Guggenheim (1977) and Sloan Research Fellow (1969) and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and, since 1998, the National Academy of Sciences . In 1985 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . He is an honorary doctor of the Bogoliubov Institute for Theoretical Physics of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences and the University of Montreal .
Fonts
- with Hans Bethe : Intermediate Quantum Mechanics. 1968, 3rd edition 1986, Benjamin-Cummings
- with Sam Treiman , Edward Witten : Current algebras and anomalies. Princeton 1986
- Various topics in theoretical and mathematical physics. World Scientific 1995
- Fluid dynamics. A particle theorists view of supersymmetry, non abelian and non commutative fluid mechanics and D-branes. Springer, 2002 ( arxiv : physics / 0010042 )
- JS Bell, R. Jackiw: A PCAC puzzle: π0 → γγ in the σ-model. In: Il Nuovo Cimento. Series A, Volume 60, 1969, p. 47
literature
- Who's Who in America. 66th Edition, Volume 1: A – L. Marquis Who's Who, Berkeley Heights 2011, ISBN 978-0-8379-7031-8 (Volume 1), ISBN 978-0-8379-7035-6 (Complete Works ), ISSN 0083-9396 , p. 2149
Web links
- Roman W. Jackiw, Jerrold Zacharias Professor of Physics, Emeritus. MIT Department of Physics, August 2018(English, official homepage).
- Roman W. Jackiw. In: Physics History Network. American Institute of Physics
- Andrew Whitaker: John Bell and the most profound discovery of science. (No longer available online.) In: PhysicsWeb. December 1998, archived from the original on October 19, 2004 (biography of John Bell describing his work with Jackiw on the chiral anomaly).
- Roman Jackiw interviewed by George Zimmerman. In: Oral Histories. Niels Bohr Library, AIP, August 5, 2010.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Roman Jackiw in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
- ↑ Faculty & Staff Notes: Retirements. (PDF) In: MIT Physics @ MIT Annual. 2012, accessed on November 1, 2018 (p. 16).
- ↑ Faculty & Staff Notes: Retirements. (PDF) In: MIT Physics @ MIT Annual. 2003, accessed on November 1, 2018 (p. 9).
- ↑ Faculty & Staff Notes: Retirements. (PDF) In: MIT Physics @ MIT Annual. 2011, accessed on November 1, 2018 (p. 9).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jackiw, Roman |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jackiw, Roman W .; Jackiw, Roman Wladimir |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 8, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lubliniec , Poland |