Sergio Ferrara
Sergio Ferrara (born May 2, 1945 in Rome ) is an Italian theoretical physicist who is one of the co-founders of the theory of supergravity .
Life
Ferrara received his doctorate in 1968 from the University of Rome and then worked as a CNEN and INFN researcher at the National Research Laboratory in Frascati , as a CNRS visiting scientist at the Laboratory for Theoretical Physics of the École normal supérieure in Paris and at CERN , where he became a member of the theory department in 1981 and a senior from 1986 Became a staff member. In 1980 he became Professor of Theoretical Physics in Italy and in 1985 Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Ferrara was involved in the development of supersymmetric Yang Mills theories in 1974 . In addition, in 1976, together with Peter van Nieuwenhuizen and Daniel Z. Freedman, he developed the theory of supergravity, for which he won the Dirac Medal (ICTP) of the International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste in 1993 and the Dannie Heineman Prize for mathematics with both of them in 2006 Physics received. In the 1990s he worked a. a. with duality symmetries in string theory and M-theory . In 1995 he formulated the attractor mechanism for extreme black holes with Renata Kallosh and Andrew Strominger , which played a role in the microscopic interpretation of the Hawking entropy of such black holes in string theory by Strominger and Cumrun Vafa .
Awards and honors
- 2005 Honorary Doctorate from the University of Tor Vergata in Rome
- 2005 Enrico Fermi Prize of the Italian Physical Society (with Gabriele Veneziano and Bruno Zumino )
- 2008 Amaldi Medal
- 2008 an ERC Advanced Research Grant for a project at CERN
- 2010 Commendatore of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
- 2015 Margherita Hack Prize for Science from the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica
- 2015 the 99th JINR Medal of Honor of the United Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna (Russia)
- 2016 Ettore Majorana Medal of the Ettore Majorana Foundation (together with Daniel Freedman and Peter van Nieuwenhuizen)
- 2016 member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- 2019 Special Fundamental Physics Prize
- 2020 Pomeranchuk Prize
Fonts
- with Pierre Fayet Supersymmetry , Physics Reports, Vol. 43, 1977, pp. 249–334 (earlier review article)
- with Peter van Nieuwenhuizen, Daniel Z. Freedman Progress towards a theory of supergravity , Physical Review D, Volume 13, 1976, p. 3214
- with Joel Scherk , Bruno Zumino Algebraic properties of extended supergravity theories , Nuclear Physics B, Volume 121, 1977, p. 393
Web links
- Sergio Ferrara. UCLA Physics & Astronomy(English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ CERN announcement
- ↑ Sergio Ferrara. In: Bulletin Issue: 28/2009 & 29/2009, CERN. July 6, 2009, accessed November 24, 2018 .
- ↑ “Premio Margherita Hack”: assegnati a Spoleto i riconoscimenti dedicati alla grande astrofisica scomparsa nel 2013. Accessed November 24, 2018 (Italian).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ferrara, Sergio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 2, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rome |